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 ...

I can't think of a better way to start a post about leads than with this: “The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn’t induce the reader to proceed to the second ...

In Albert Camus’ novel The Plague, an aspiring novelist named Joseph Grand can’t progress beyond writing and rewriting ad infinitum a single sentence: “One fine morning in the month of May an elegant ...

Linking words together in the right way makes your writing easy to understand and interesting to read. When you are writing, words are grouped together into sentences. There are a few simple rules you ...