I confess. I’m a bit of a writing snob. As an editor for the past 25 years, I’ve read thousands of stories, slashing unnecessary words, dragging entire paragraphs into the trash and writing comments ...

It’s not everyday that we get a glimpse inside the minds (and Google Docs) of today’s students. But thanks to the all together immense power of big data, writing improvement tool NoRedInk analyzed ...

In the professional world, your writing is important. You use it on a daily basis to express yourself and your ideas, and the way it’s received matters. It makes sense, then, to ensure that you’re ...

Ask a 7-year-old what they want to be when they grow up and they will tell you. “YouTuber.” Being paid to create online sounds like great fun, but most people don’t make it big. For every 100 people ...

Ben Yagoda mentions that with proofreading, students might catch many of their errors (“The Seven Deadly Sins of Student Writers,” The Chronicle Review, September 8). In other words, perhaps many of ...

A dangling expression is one that doesn’t fit logically into the rest of the sentence. It “dangles” — often because it’s a verb phrase in search of a subject which never turns up. Consider these ...

Think your writing mistakes don’t matter? Think again. A study by Global Lingo found that as many as 59 percent of online customers are scared away from sites with spelling and grammatical errors.

There have been some disturbing things in the news lately. When reading a story about the three Americans and the Briton who subdued the gunman on a French train, Karen was dismayed to come upon this ...