There’s a lot one could write about Galileo, the Italian astronomer and physicist. But on a snowy Friday morning in December, during a lesson helping students draft essays about outer space, teacher ...

Last week, the San Francisco-based literary agent Nathan Bransford announced his 2nd Sort-of-Annual Stupendously Ultimate First Paragraph Challenge, inviting writers to send in the openings of their ...

Writing a strong topic sentence that establishes the subject of the paragraph Using "echo words" -- i.e., consistent terms for the concepts throughout Applying transitions to link sentences logically ...

Christina Dalcher dedicated her debut novel, Vox, to Charlie Jones, "linguist, professor, friend". Dalcher earned a doctorate in linguistics from Georgetown University in 2006, with a dissertation ...

Collaborating on a document with colleagues or clients often involves moving text around and changing the order of paragraphs or sections. Having to manually copy and paste the paragraphs in a ...