This article is based on excerpts from Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content (Wiley, September 2014). The writer Andre Dubus (House of Sand and Fog) has described ...

In order to break the ice and build a sense of lively, good-humored community, we suggest trying some of these activities and icebreaker questions in the classroom – perhaps even at the start of every ...

What place has style in scientific writing ... The aim of 'good' style is ease of interpretation—to reduce to a minimum the mechanics of the transfer of ideas. As a service to the readers ...

It takes a lot of time and energy. However, students continue to apply. Appealing to Emotion: What images, ideas, events, and memories do you want to trigger in your readers' mind? The fact remains—a ...

Active verbs are important components of any academic writing! Just as in other forms of writing ... The list below offers dozens of such verbs that will help you communicate your ideas and the ideas ...

Mel Levine explains how Nathan Suggs' ideas outpace his ability to get ... he has motor difficulty with writing. He's a good linguist, so it's not the language part of writing that's impeding ...

There is a lot more to writing than coming up with good ideas. Children with writing disabilities may have no trouble forming coherent and creative thoughts, but struggle endlessly to get those ...

Anthony Horowitz:So you've got a good idea, but how do you start ... Students could gather together examples of some of the ideas for inspiring writing, such as overheard remarks, observed ...

The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board spotlights some of the Republican supermajority’s better ideas this legislative session, on saving animals, cutting utility rates and making streets safer.