Reading and writing were always my favorite subjects when I was in school, and I can still remember when I was taught that a proper paragraph had five sentences in it. It was probably around fourth ...

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom.

About a dozen pages into Michelle de Kretser’s new novel, “Theory & Practice,” she runs into the granite wall between truth and fiction. The narrative involves a young man dreaming of a woman. He has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Hutcheson teaches leadership at Purdue University. As we approach the new year, many leaders are setting goals to enhance ...

What’s so interesting about a paragraph?, you might say. Ah yes, the humble paragraph… but what more is it other than a combination of sentences that convey some form of idea unit? If you ask me, it’s ...

Business documents -- such as letters, emails, memorandums and reports -- use paragraphs to separate different types of information, arguments and ideas. Paragraphs written in business format are ...

Notice Writing Questions for CBSE Class 12: Notice Writing is an important part of the CBSE Class 12 English curriculum. A question on it is asked in the Section for Creative Writing Skills in CBSE ...

“Apple does things practically.” Or, “Apple is late because it’s perfecting the tech.” “Would you prefer being the first or the best?” These are just some of the recurring arguments you will find in ...

“Trying to write.” That tell-tale phrase usually indicates that there’s more trying than writing going on. The main character of Rosalind Brown’s debut novel, Practice, is an Oxford undergrad named ...

Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images On writing, author David Sedaris once said, “You need to do the best that you can do, and then you need to take the best that you can do and ...

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