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In her 1989 book The Writing Life, Annie Dillard describes a fellow writer who was asked by a student if she thought he might become a writer. “Well, do you like sentences?” the fellow writer said.

Have you ever asked yourself why some writing feels very clear and easy to understand, while other writing feels confusing? ...

What’s so interesting about a paragraph?, you might say. Ah yes, the humble paragraph… but what more is it other than a combination of sentences that convey some form of idea unit? If you ask me, it’s ...

"Write a paragraph on traffic jams." Have you been asked to do so in school? I was too. My teacher sometimes asked me, "Write a SHORT paragraph on a winter morning." A short paragraph! A paragraph on ...

Hi there! You do know that right now digital communication dominates and student writing increasingly reflects social media patterns, don’t you? This is a pertinent reason to pay attention to the ...

You may remember those kids in grade school who struggled to "get it." The concept of paragraphing seemed to elude them, so their words spilled out on paper in a haphazard frenzy. Their work became ...

John Warner has read enough college student essays to diagnose what's wrong with the way Americans write. After 20 years teaching undergraduate writing courses, including a recent stint at the College ...

Paragraphs are a collection of sentences. They are used in writing to introduce new sections of a story, characters or pieces of information. Paragraphs help readers to enjoy what has been written ...

As a graduate student, I once drew a rather bad cartoon of an old schoolmarm (complete with Gary Larson-style beehive) standing in front of a class saying, “And when you finish your five-paragraph ...