Effective writing is readable — that is, clear, accurate, and concise. When you are writing a paper, try to get your ideas across in such a way that the audience will understand them effortlessly, ...

Here’s a sentence from an article I was editing recently: “What’s more — aside from a specialized curriculum — private schools are notoriously known for their smaller classrooms.” It’s the kind of ...

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 ...

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