Teens writing poetry about everything from family problems to broken hearts has always been considered a rite of passage. But lately, those churning out heartfelt sonnets and odes to environmentalism ...

Proofread carefully to make make sure your writing is correct. It never ceases to annoy me when people misuse the written word. English is a beautifully ugly language. For one, it allows phrases like ...

Writing a diary is nothing new. Millions of people do it. A 2011 article in the Indian Times on ‘Why we keep diaries’ noted that being able to keep a diary over a long period is not easy to do as it ...

Since my first day as a university student back in October 1984, I have kept a diary. What started out as my attempt to write a real-life Secret Diary of Adrian Mole has turned into 30 years of ...

According to experts in the fields of education and business, writing is one of the most important skills a student can learn. Research from the National Commission on Writing indicates, however, that ...

From excerpts of a lecture collected in The Poetics of Wrongness, which was published last month by Wave Books. In late January 2013, I told my mother I was going to publish my memoir, called MOTHERs, ...

Savor this—a passage of published prose written by a full professor at a major university, cited in Leonard Cassuto’s new book Academic Writing as if Readers Matter: [S]tudents’ production of texts ...