The Student Life

The Writing Process: Why writing is unfair — and why that’s ok!

Otto Fritton PZ ’27 returns with his column, “The Writing Process.” Working on his debut novel, Fritton has long grappled ...
Lifehacker

FoxType Breaks Down the Structure of Any Sentence So You Can Visualize It

If you want to improve your grammar, you may find it helpful to analyze how sentences are structured. FoxType does the work for you, visually breaking down your sentences so you can see how each word ...
Washington Times

College writing center: Proper grammar perpetuates ‘racist,’ ‘unjust language structure’

The University of Washington, Tacoma’s Writing Center now instructs students that expecting proper grammar from others perpetuates racism and “unjust language structures.” A cadre of staffers at ...
Daily Mail

Major overhaul coming to Australia's education system to ensure kids can read and write properly - here's what you need to know about the changes

Ailing literacy skills across Australia has triggered a major overhaul of one state's education system with grammar and punctuation the areas most in need of improvement. The English syllabus has been ...
News Medical

Brain encodes the structure of sentences and phrases into different neural firing patterns, study finds

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...