Today is Thursday, so this post is on communication skills. Clear, crisp writing is an important communication skill. Successful people are able to get across their ideas in an easily readable way.

I went to college so long ago that I wrote my numerous English papers on an electric typewriter. Because I was 18 or 19 or so, I left every assignment until the last possible minute. That meant that ...

I write this column barely an hour before I am scheduled to meet with my African American studies preceptor about revising my midterm paper for a new grade. I wrote the paper amidst the chaos of ...

Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images On writing, author David Sedaris once said, “You need to do the best that you can do, and then you need to take the best that you can do and ...

Many students know the struggle of rephrasing paragraphs without sounding repetitive. Plagiarism risks and awkward flow often creep into academic and creative writing. While AI tools are popular, some ...

The Academic Senate voted last week to change the way students can progress beyond English 57, the writing composition class formerly known as Subject A and which is a prerequisite for all other ...

When you have all the answers about a building before you start building it, your answers are not true. The building gives you answers as it grows and becomes itself. -- Louis I. Kahn Accustomed to ...

During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 11 years. You can see all those collections from the first 10 years here. Today’s theme is ...

In the era of high-stakes testing, teachers break conventional revision rules by insisting that children conceive, draft, and publish a piece of writing in one sitting. This philosophy necessitates ...

Having trouble getting your thoughts down in an email? In need of a proofreader to check your prose for errors in spelling or grammar? Want a quick summary of a text message? You can get all this from ...