I recently saw Austin’s Hip Hop Theater Explosion, the city’s equivalent of the old Motown Revue—a showcase for the city’s leading rappers, slam poets, tap dancers, break-dancers and much more. This ...

You may already have heard about the passive voice. It works well in some instances, but you don’t want to use it all the time. But you also won’t want to overuse “to be” in general because that can ...

Undergraduate and graduate level writing have a number of differences, but your undergraduate writing experience serves as a foundation for moving on to the graduate level. There are two main paths ...

Require many reliable sources to back up your thesis/claim. Take up a position and support it with evidence. Usually about events (historical or current), textual arguments, or personal interests.

In the time of Twitter, concision may be a valid goal in student writing. But clarity and accuracy are often emphasized too little, Kim Epting argues. In a New York Times opinion piece this spring, ...

YOU must have heard the expression ‘less is more’. People say this regarding dressing and cosmetic usage. You may have wondered if that applies to writing and speaking contexts. In many language skill ...

"I take great joy," Greg writes gleefully, "in annoying clerks in medical offices by complaining about their patient forms that ask for my past medical history." Did you catch the needless modifier?

I'm writing from the land beyond 1,000,000 words. Last week, for our first lesson, we looked at the power of concision. I ...