Margaret Downs, a voice writer/captioner, graduated with an associate degree from the court reporting and captioning program at Cuyahoga Community College in December of 2011. Six months later, she ...

Lake Bell was speechless earlier this year when she received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival–which is kind of ironic considering the movie for which she won is ...

Crystal Beaman, voice writer court reporter with the 6th Judicial District, records what is said Jan. 19 during the murder trial of Kazius Childress at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids.

Do our writing means change our written ends? In the future, you will talk to your computer. Voice, the predominant mode of human-to-human communication, has been migrating to silicon for more than a ...

One of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence’s goals is to support writing in all of its forms, including genres beyond the walls of higher education. In a brand-new workshop series, Howe Writing ...

For many writers, feedback that your copy is "too passive" can be frustrating. The passive voice is, after all, grammatically correct. But there's a reason that public relations and communications ...

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, ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Little wonder we artists (in my case, poets) have our own writing defenses— ways of subverting or otherwise muting the voice. The most obvious, of course, is the block. The voice refusing to speak.