I recently had the pleasure of helping judge an essay contest, in an age when anyone capable of maintaining a written thought for more than 14 words is worthy of at least an honorable mention. The ...

This is my third quarterly grammar/spelling/punctuation rant of 2017, see the previous two here and here. 1. I would like to make you aware that sometime on Monday ...

Bruce Leonard has been an editor, managing editor, city editor, associate editor, copy editor, contributing editor or reporter/photographer for dozens of publications. Smartphones, tablets, computers ...

RICHMOND, Va. - In an era when students’ social media skills often surpass their writing skills, many American high school students are just not prepared for the rigorous college curriculums that ...

Your words are your most powerful weapons, and yet it’s easy to undermine yourself in written communication by violating some very simple rules of punctuation. Before I dive deeper into this, a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...