In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk ...

Writers choose and build different types of sentences carefully. There are three main types of sentence structure - simple close simple sentenceA sentence containing one clause made up of a subject ...

A whole book on the lowly sentence? Stanley Fish, America's English Professor, confides that he belongs "to the tribe of sentence watchers," and shares his passion and learning through an array of ...

An alternative to a writing workshop where participants critique each other's writing, this course is a practicum focusing on sentence-level improvement. Using a method the co-instructors developed ...

Journaling boosts creativity and helps you reflect. But it can be time consuming to write a page or two every single day. If you don't feel like you have time to journal regularly, start a "single ...

Talk of the Nation listeners wrote to the show to tell stories about siblings who've been reunited. They weighed in on the Akron parent who was punished for sending her child to an out-of-district ...

Although we do not know the exact day William Shakespeare was born, we celebrate his birthday on April 23, which brings us to the 450th anniversary of his birth. Since many of us will not be residents ...

Surely the most maligned mark of punctuation among journalists is the semicolon. They fear it, avoid it, doubt their ability to use it correctly. It seems stodgy, archaic and academic, traits they are ...

Well, here you are, looking at this, trying, hoping, floundering, scrabbling, wishing, dying to find out the mystery of “how to” write a sentence. Or possibly you have tried write sentence and failed ...