In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk ...

I can't think of a better way to start a post about leads than with this: “The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn’t induce the reader to proceed to the second ...

When we write things down, it’s important to keep things nice and clear, so it’s easy to read. Sentences help us give an order, ask a question, state a fact, or express an emotion or idea. Words are ...

Linking words together in the right way makes your writing easy to understand and interesting to read. When you are writing, words are grouped together into sentences. There are a few simple rules you ...

The best way to write a perfect sentence is to lower your standards. I hope that advice doesn’t come across as some bait and switch, that there is no such thing as a perfect sentence. I do believe in ...