Benjamin Miller works for the University of Sydney. University students across the nation will be handing in their first assignments of the academic year over the next few weeks. Academic staff will ...

A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons—those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech—don’t help and may even hinder students’ efforts to become better ...

The Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced Thursday. Roy Peter Clark, a writing teacher at the Poynter Institute, offers an essay about how all the big, notable writers in the world once started ...