Reading and writing were always my favorite subjects when I was in school, and I can still remember when I was taught that a proper paragraph had five sentences in it. It was probably around fourth ...

Ever thought about writing non-fiction, be it an essay, a memoir or even a brief snapshot of your life? Why not take the leap? In a new series, author, critic and broadcaster Cristín Leach explores ...

Read on to know what happens when you write the eerie number on your wrists SOCIAL media users are writing a bizarre combination of digits dubbed “heaven or hell number” on their wrists in an eerie ...

Tom Boggioni is a writer, born, raised and living in San Diego — where he attended San Diego State University. Prior to writing for Raw Story, he wrote for FireDogLake, blogged as TBogg, and worked in ...

Editor’s note: Poynter announced that the newly renamed 2024 Poynter Journalism Prizes will feature a category honoring longtime writing coach Roy Peter Clark and recognizing compelling short writing ...

Photographs by Erinn Springer Ms. Barnhill is the author of “The Ogress and the Orphans.” She experienced a traumatic brain injury in 2021. I’ve been trying to write this essay for a very long time.

Simply put, sentence inversion is when the typical, traditional word order of a sentence is reversed. Instead of the usual structure of subject-verb-object, an inverted sentence places the verb before ...

With millions of academic papers being published each year—close to an estimated three million in 2020 alone—scholars often struggle to make their work stand out. While no one has been able to nail ...

In the remote Arctic almost 30 years ago, a group of Inuit middle school students and their teacher invented the Western Hemisphere's first new numeral system in more than a century. The “Kaktovik ...

Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...