Word of the Day: Over 2 million English words exist, yet “sartorial meaning” is trending in Google search this year. Readers ...

Over 63 million Americans write as a hobby, but I’m one of the few who gets paid to do it. For the last decade, I’ve made my ...

Word of the Day: Quiddity meaning is the essential nature of something. It answers the question, what makes a thing what it is. Quiddity pronunciation is KWID-ih-tee. The word comes from Latin ...

We sat down with Poynter senior scholar Roy Peter Clark, author of numerous books including “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times,” to talk about what makes good short writing. It’s a topic ...

Opinion: This collaboration engages more than 200 students each year in writing and public speaking. Angela McShepard-Ray, Ed.D., is the principal of Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School ...

Last year, Microsoft brought artificial intelligence to PowerPoint with Ideas, a tool to suggest improvements to presentations. Now Microsoft is adapting Ideas to Microsoft Word, offering ideas to ...

“That August Leopoldo and Felicidad forwent vacation away from the city and waited for the baby to arrive in ‘the sad, dusty Madrid of summer.’” This passage, which begins chapter 15 of “The Age of ...

For some, writing comes easy. It may feel like mere seconds for words to start flying off the page as the final word count nears thousands. For others, it may take several painstaking hours to muster ...

It’s a question that has hounded us all: What are the consequences of erudite vernacular used irrespective of necessity? OK, not really. That’s the ironic title of an academic paper published in 2005 ...

I believe that many people who compose written documents using a word processor or page layout app like Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, Adobe InDesign or Quark Xpress do themselves a disservice. Word ...