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Welcome to a new series, “The Public Writing Life,” about how to write for a popular audience (and get paid for it) when you are part of the academy. There’s plenty of good writing advice out there, ...

The first picture shows a large city, the second a farm that is far away from other places. The third is the center of a small town. In which place would we probably find the cleanest air?

Writing a résumé can be a daunting task. It has a style unlike virtually any other document you are likely to write. Consequently, many people rely on either preconceived ideas or stock templates when ...

As an editor, I try to ask good questions. That’s because I’m a curious person, overflowing with sentences that end in question marks. It’s also because, as Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark once wrote, ...

The Virtual Learning Environment I use - let's call it Chalkboard - (VLE - see Do you speak my language: V is for Volume, Vapourware, Virus, VoIP, VNC, VPN, VLE, Virtual Campus) does have the ability ...

When it comes to the ways people communicate, the writing is on the wall — and it isn’t handwriting. Each new generation relies less on pen and paper to put down words and more on keyboards and ...