I recently had the pleasure of helping judge an essay contest, in an age when anyone capable of maintaining a written thought for more than 14 words is worthy of at least an honorable mention. The ...

RICHMOND, Va. - In an era when students’ social media skills often surpass their writing skills, many American high school students are just not prepared for the rigorous college curriculums that ...

Your words are your most powerful weapons, and yet it’s easy to undermine yourself in written communication by violating some very simple rules of punctuation. Before I dive deeper into this, a ...

All artistic structures are said to possess three formative and aesthetic qualities: order, connection, and rhythm. Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver’s Travels, once defined good style in writing ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...