Did you know April is National Poetry Month? If you're a student looking for a creative outlet, consider trying your hand at poetry—or another form of writing—as a member of Writers Writing Words. A ...

In the book “More Than Words,” writer-educator John Warner makes the case for renewing the concept of writing as a fundamentally human activity. Large Language Model bots like ChatGPT offer not ...

(Editor’s note: “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times” is the fourth in a series of writing and language books written by Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown, beginning ...

Note: In the “Are You Working?” series, a Ph.D. and academic-writing coach answers questions from faculty members and graduate students about scholarly motivation and productivity. This month’s ...

Quick: Picture a writer in your head. An image of a bearded old man, hunched over a clackety typewriter may come to mind. But these days, a writer is more likely to be tapping away at a tablet or even ...

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 ...

Writing a check correctly can be intimidating, especially if you’re out of practice — or never learned. The less you use your checkbook, the more confusing it can be — especially when it comes to ...

With InDesign, you can add stylish text effects in order to attract readers' attention to important parts of the documents. InDesign allows you to write words along the edge of an open or closed shape ...