When I was in my twenties I put writers on a pedestal, believing that writing is an exertion of power. I still largely feel this way because in our present time, where attention is fleeting, to be ...

The Writing Center Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2019), pp. 93-126 (34 pages) Heeding previous scholars' calls for a critical investigation of the role of reflection in the professional development of ...

When I applied for The Stanford Daily’s Summer Journalism program in 2019 in the spring of my sophomore year, I had been part of my school’s journalism club only for a few months. Although I ...

In January, longtime NewsHour essayist Roger Rosenblatt returned to our studio to talk about his new book on a subject that many of our viewers and readers hold dear. Unless It Moves The Human Heart: ...

Editorial writing is a style that can be hard to explain since it's usually a unique mixture of fact and opinion. Viewing editorial examples is one of the most helpful ways to learn what the style ...

That's a famous line in Federalist No. 51, generally attributed to James Madison—but not quite. The line is actually, in context, But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several ...