Encouraging children to ‘write’ their own versions of tales like ‘The Three Little Pigs’ helps them build crucial early ...

There is an important and influential type of public writing that scholars have described as the “classic style.” The classic text to teach this style is titled “Clear and Simple as the Truth,” ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- History's famous word collaborators include Gilbert and Sullivan, Lennon and McCartney, Woodward and Bernstein. But while those pairs were contemporaries, William Strunk Jr. and E.B.

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no ...