When I write, I keep two primary principles in mind. First, I use as few words as necessary to convey an idea. Second, I ensure that every sentence is sequenced in the correct order. If a word is not ...

Have you ever read your own sentence and felt that something sounds a little stiff or robotic? Do you sometimes think your writing is correct but still not smooth enough? If yes, you are not alone.

Orwell advised cutting as many words as possible, Woolf found energy in verbs, and Baldwin aimed for ‘a sentence as clean as a bone’. What can we learn from celebrated authors about the art of writing ...

Writers choose and build different types of sentences carefully. There are three main types of sentence structure - simple close simple sentenceA sentence containing one clause made up of a subject ...

Readers today skim faster than ever, and flat prose loses them within seconds. Small adjustments to what writers call ...

Your writing feels flat when rhythm is missing. Learn five sentence music techniques that make business writing engaging, trustworthy and impossible to put down.

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 ...

There are a few rules that are drummed so incessantly into our heads in school that we cannot help but internalize them. One is "No sentence fragments!" Actually, that should be "Don't use sentence ...