Students help each other improve their sentence style. Actual sentences volunteered or selected from students' writing will be shared and worked on as a class. (What doesn't kill us makes us stronger, ...

Steven Pinker's new book is "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century." (jeffrey james pacres/Flickr) As broadcasters, we're taught to write in clear, active ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

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In this writing exercise, first, we will hand out copies of loser sentences from previous students’ psychology papers, and we will use these sentences as examples to help us define, recognize and spot ...

How can you create a balance between short and long sentences, and how does that change the flow of ideas in your writing? This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences ...

A run‐on sentence is two or more independent clauses joined together with insufficient punctuation. This means that there are two or more complete sentences fused into one sentence. Use a colon: a ...

Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House presents: “Writing Lessons”, a podcast that explores the foundations of creative writing. March 5, 2025 • In the eighth episode of Writing Lessons, host Silas House ...

Steven Pinker's new book is "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century." (jeffrey james pacres/Flickr) As broadcasters, we're taught to write in clear, active ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the best instructional strategies and lessons to use when teaching intermediate English-language learners? The English-language-learner population is growing ...