Punctuation may seem like a small detail in the grand scheme of writing, but its impact on communication is profound. These ...

Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still ...

There’s no doubt that AI will be — already is — part of our writing lives going forward. But we lose something when we ...

AI writing’s cadence isn’t just clipped and dramatic. It makes everything feel like the world is ending – and it is ...

The # has a name you’d never guess. Developed for touch-tone telephones in 1968, that little hex is called an octothorpe.

The first thing on your resume should be your name and contact information. Your name should be at the top of your resume in ...

Choz Cunningham created a punctuation mark with a similar purpose and called it the “Snark Mark”, he used a period followed by a tilde (.~) at the end of a sentence to indicate snark or a sarcastic ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

Teachers can create a writing-rich environment that encourages young learners’ playful marks and inventive spelling.

FOR this Nostalgia edition we wanted to take a look at literacy in schools on National Punctuation Day.

Henry W. Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century ...

Paul Thomas Anderson used Philip Seymour Hoffman from the sidelines until his dramatic power outlived the actor himself.