Stanley Fish says, "Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. I appreciate fine sentences." I love the sound of that. And chances are if you love language you'll find something ...

Speaker 1: It’s important to use sentences that give your writing the effect that you want. Speaker 2: There are three types of sentences: simple, compound, and complex. Speaker 1: Simple sentences ...

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 ...

In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk ...

The best way to write a perfect sentence is to lower your standards. I hope that advice doesn’t come across as some bait and switch, that there is no such thing as a perfect sentence. I do believe in ...

An alternative to a writing workshop where participants critique each other's writing, this course is a practicum focusing on sentence-level improvement. Using a method the co-instructors developed ...

Existing AI-text detecting services, including ZeroGPT, Originality and AI Detector, train large language models to analyze ...

Surely the most maligned mark of punctuation among journalists is the semicolon. They fear it, avoid it, doubt their ability to use it correctly. It seems stodgy, archaic and academic, traits they are ...

Writers choose and build different types of sentences carefully. There are three main types of sentence structure - simple close simple sentenceA sentence containing one clause made up of a subject ...