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 ...

Common Core Standards—adopted by 45 states—is supposed to bring back writing in schools. Ironically, a writing revolution in schools happened 37 years ago when an eloquent professor named Donald ...

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 ...

The way we express ourselves in writing today differs greatly from the formal way of writing letters in the past. We’re so used to firing off emails and texts using shorthand that some habits have ...

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 ...