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When I started writing my senior [...]

It has become trite to point out the sizable chasm between written and spoken language. Evidently, what finds its way on to paper is a bit different from what “escapes our teeth’s barrier.” One of the differences, however, has nothing to do with the matter of style, and everything to do with form: the written [...]

One of my professors was told while writing her doctorate thesis, “If you can’t explain it to your grandmother, you don’t understand it well enough.” Ignoring the statement’s strong prejudice against grandmothers (just kidding), I think it contains a very interesting implication. Basically, the statement claims that ordinary vocabulary and concepts are sufficient to [...]

Let me tell you a little story. There was once a nice kid who liked to write. So he got a job that involved writing, signed up for classes that involved writing and reading full time at a university, and started two blogs. Guess what? Pretty soon he was having a hard time keeping up.
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When I was about ten years old I started a journal. It went something like this: “We spent the night at our aunt’s house today. We watched a movie at night. We went to be at eight o’clock. We woke up at seven o’clock, and she wasn’t awake yet so we read books. We had [...]

Shari Wilson, a college teacher for years, noticed that many students in her composition courses earned about a letter grade higher when they wrote their essays in class. She tried to figure out why a real paper and pen made such a big difference in writing quality, but she could only speculate. One of her [...]