Great teachers know how to improve myriad aspects of student writing: idea generation, organization, evidence marshaling, diction, grammar, and more. But even with tools and techniques in each of ...

We’ve all been there. We hear a song, smell a scent, or listen to a conversation and are suddenly thrown into an unmoored negative feeling — maybe just a tinge of unease, maybe full-on dread, overcome ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.

Evidence suggests that writing was invented in southern Iraq sometime before 3000BC. But what happened next? Anyone interested in this question will find How Writing Made Us Human by Walter Stephens ...

You’ve probably read writing that was almost too mind-numbing to endure. The writer’s style made you race to check your email for the zillionth time that day or water the plants on your desk if it ...