(Editor’s note: “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times” is the fourth in a series of writing and language books written by Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown, beginning ...

A short sentence can fade fast. Another can hang around for minutes, or years. New research from MIT suggests the difference is not style or spelling. It is meaning. In a study of 500 people and 2,500 ...

Whether you identify as one or not, everyone is a writer. Between social networks, dating profiles, blogs, and the day-to-day tasks of most jobs, writing is an essential skill. In How to Write Short, ...

How can you create a balance between short and long sentences, and how does that change the flow of ideas in your writing? This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences ...

When looking up a word in the dictionary, the sample sentences provided below the definition always help give context for words. While helpful, these examples can be strange or oddly poetic. Designer ...