Hamlet isn’t the only one to dismiss written compositions as simply “Words, words, words,” without any larger significance or meaning. So, too, do too many of my students, who treat writing ...

There’s one piece of advice few writing coaches would quibble with: Keep it simple. Simple wording speeds readers’ and listeners’ mental processing. It coaxes them to hang onto your words. Researchers ...

To many researchers, academic writing evokes a Sisyphean ordeal: it robs precious time and mental bandwidth that could be better spent doing actual science. Franz Kafka expressed it eloquently: “How ...

The rise of machine writing is a great opportunity for literature.

In 1919, when American writer E. B. White was a college student, he took a course with English professor William Strunk Jr. The textbook was a slim volume called The Elements of Style, whose author ...