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 ...
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 ...
March 30, 2015 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you're anything like me, you have huge gaps of time in between your journal entries. I often vow to start ...
When I teach writing to university students, I stress the importance of building from a strong foundation. I insist that the excellence of an essay, or even an entire book, often depends on the ...