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 ...

Comedian Louis C.K. recently went on a social-media rant about the Common Core State Standards and testing, as my colleague Catherine Gewertz blogged this week. Within the Twitter barrage of ...

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I can't think of a better way to start a post about leads than with this: “The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn’t induce the reader to proceed to the second ...

The ACT English Test and the SAT Writing and Language Test assess test-takers in various conventions of standard English, such as punctuation, sentence structure and formation, and usage. For many ...

With young kids, you need to proceed carefully with their learning and homeschooling lessons. Once you are done with teaching words to your kids, it is time to move to some easy and small sentences.

FIRST YOU WRITE A SENTENCE The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life By Joe Moran A well-formed sentence, Joe Moran writes in his humane and witty guide to meaning-making, “is a cure, however ...

Linking words together in the right way makes your writing easy to understand and interesting to read. When you are writing, words are grouped together into sentences. There are a few simple rules you ...