Writers can misuse or overuse hyphens, em dashes, colons and, to some editors' disgust, semicolons. Using a period is a ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

Lana Claire Morgan teaches first grade at Bovina Elementary School and has 21 years of experience in education. Morgan is a ...

The study ricocheted around the world. Almost 200 news stories promoted the idea that we remember things better when we write them down by hand instead of typing. It confirmed what many of us ...

MY column last week ("When even the passive voice isn't enough," EPS 2238) further emphasized that our writing shouldn't ...

When you have an important message, you should convey it in two clear sentences ... suggesting the creation of simple message houses before writing. He recommends this exercise: “Take a 1,500 ...