Elementary and secondary schools should spend more time teaching students to write well, so they will be better prepared for college, said a report released last month by the National Commission on ...

Niceties in language can produce exquisite precision and clarity. Consider this passage from the short story “Dimension” by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro, who died this month at 92: “She ...

With its publication of Prized Writing each fall, the University Writing Program holds a ceremony to honor the students from across campus whose works are in the book, and acknowledge the importance ...

Dr. Janine Butler earned her B.A. in English with a concentration in Language, Writing, and Rhetoric as well as a minor in Philosophy from the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her M.A.

Dr. Janine Butler earned her B.A. in English with a concentration in Language, Writing, and Rhetoric as well as a minor in Philosophy from the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her M.A.

A writer-journalist friend was recently told that something he wrote felt like it was ChatGPT-coded. This was because of his liberal use of the em dash—that long punctuation mark which signals a ...