One of the most challenged books in American schools, “Speak” dissects a specific kind of silence every woman is taught early on. It’s one that keeps her safe — or at least, less emotionally exposed.

Jeffrey W. Kitchen has taught an intense course on screenwriting to a series of small groups of just six people over the past 35 years. In recent weeks, I came across Kitchen on YouTube, and I was ...

Ever feel like your writing stops in the middle because words just don’t come out smoothly? It happens to almost everyone, and the good thing is, there are simple ways to make your writing flow better ...

Jean and Carl guide you through creative and persuasive writing techniques - focusing on how to engage readers, structure ideas under time pressure and craft writing that stands out. This GCSE English ...

Jean and Carl share top tips for creative and persuasive writing, from crafting opening lines to planning story structure and using sentence variety for impact. Show more Jean and Carl guide you ...

Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first writing system, cuneiform, according to a study of mysterious signs ...

Hello. I'm David Kerr, professor of cancer medicine from University of Oxford. We've approached the time of year in which we both look backward and forward. It is a time to pause for reflection and ...

On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like an AI model. Called “Humanizer,” the ...

January is traditionally a month for starting projects, trying new things, and working to break bad habits — particularly anything that gets in the way of self-improvement or productivity. Polygon ...

The em dash has emerged as a telltale sign of AI usage, at least in the popular imagination. It even has a name — the "ChatGPT dash." Right or wrong, the Internet is pretty well convinced that the em ...