Jean and Carl share top tips for creative and persuasive writing, from crafting opening lines to planning story structure and using sentence variety for impact. Show more Jean and Carl guide you ...

Jean and Carl guide you through creative and persuasive writing techniques - focusing on how to engage readers, structure ideas under time pressure and craft writing that stands out. This GCSE English ...

The human brain is engineered to ignore most of what it sees and hears, according to the neuroscientists I interviewed for the audio original Viral Voices. If that’s the case, how are you supposed to ...

We have plumbed the depths of abstract words, but what about abstract ideas? Abstractions are a fact of professional life. The law is littered with them. Think of the legislative process, intellectual ...

Ancient Mesopotamians used pictures of basic objects to preserve and describe their culture. The Phoenicians pivoted from pictures to symbols around 1600 B.C., a harbinger of our modern alphabet. Each ...

Legal writing is a learned skill that can be improved and developed over time. During the first semester, you were likely introduced to predictive legal writing. In the second semester, your legal ...

Abstract: Background: The bulk of international trade has led to increasing demand for specialized professional communication texts in multilingual contexts. Persuasive language is required in ...

Lansing City Council President Ryan Kost says he is filing a complaint with Attorney General Dana Nessel after a flyer mailed to Lansing residents by the commission tasked with rewriting the city’s ...

Language shapes how people feel about us long before they pause to consider most other details. When a conversation heats up, the smallest choices in wording can nudge things toward connection or ...

I used to think mentor texts were just something you pulled off the shelf during writing time. But once I started using them intentionally—really slowing down and showing students how authors craft ...