Constructing an assignment that elicits good writing may be as difficult for teachers as writing the essays is for students, a forthcoming study suggests. Teachers must strike a delicate balance ...

This presentation was given as the keynote address at the National Writers Workshop in Irvine, Calif., hosted by the Orange County Register on April 28-29, 2001. Simplicity is clear. Simplicity is ...

Good writing is becoming a scarcer and scarcer commodity, especially in the corporate world. In today's instant-communication, speed-obsessed world, people don't have time to write well, and bosses, ...