I was talking to my friend Sarah the other day, and she pointed something out that has been on my mind for a while. She launched her start-up a few years ago, and while it was a tight team for the ...

Your writing feels flat when rhythm is missing. Learn five sentence music techniques that make business writing engaging, ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach writing? Teaching and learning good writing can be a challenge to educators and ...

How can you create a balance between short and long sentences, and how does that change the flow of ideas in your writing? This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic. This handout breaks the paragraph down into its ...

Have you ever asked yourself why some writing feels very clear and easy to understand, while other writing feels confusing? ...

A run‐on sentence is two or more independent clauses joined together with insufficient punctuation. This means that there are two or more complete sentences fused into one sentence. Use a colon: a ...

That’s a lesson that, according to a Twitter post, a teacher recently passed on to a child. In context, the lesson seems a little less atrocious: The teacher was talking about the first sentence in a ...

It all starts with one good sentence. That one good sentence is probably the hardest part of the writing process for Larry Pringle of West Nyack, N.Y., who has written more than 100 children’s books ...