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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...