In her 1989 book The Writing Life, Annie Dillard describes a fellow writer who was asked by a student if she thought he might become a writer. “Well, do you like sentences?” the fellow writer said.

The teacher, Eli Carbullido, shared his students’ real feelings about writing a single paragraph on TikTok. He filmed a video with two separate parts. “In a paragraph…” he said in the first, beginning ...

"Write a paragraph on traffic jams." Have you been asked to do so in school? I was too. My teacher sometimes asked me, "Write a SHORT paragraph on a winter morning." A short paragraph! A paragraph on ...

The word essay derives from the title of a 1580 collection of writings by the Frenchman Michel de Montaigne. In his Essays, Montaigne set down his thoughts on whatever subject snared his ...

A few years ago I was introducing my children to table-top role-playing games. I started searching the interwebs for some ideas and systems other people used with kids. I wrote about several in a past ...

Once you’ve established yourself on LinkedIn, it won’t be long until you’re asked to write a recommendation — it’s inevitable. Some of us may even have a few requests sitting in our inbox right now.