I'm back in the big city. I have been floating in fluids since March — swimming pool, sea, or beer — and my skin was beginning to wrinkle. I have to go back to work, which, in my case, being a writer, ...

Tom Wolfe, the nattily dressed and prolific writer who penned The Right Stuff, one of the best adventure books of all time, died on Monday at a hospital in his adopted hometown of New York City. He ...

As someone who’s deeply immersed in the world of search engine-optimized (SEO) content writing, I hear these statements quite a bit. What I find is that there seems to be a gap between the ...

Hamlet isn’t the only one to dismiss written compositions as simply “Words, words, words,” without any larger significance or meaning. So, too, do too many of my students, who treat writing ...

The DePauw University Style Guide provides writing style standards for publications created for DePauw’s external audiences. Also included are examples of correct grammar and forms about which people ...

I'm continuing my exploration of what ChatGPT can do. This time, I'm looking into how ChatGPT can take some existing writing and rewrite it in a different style. Also: I asked ChatGPT to write a ...

Michael Kernan, a writer whose graceful versatility helped define the tone and literary flair of The Washington Post's Style section, died May 4 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Bennington, Vt. He ...

As the fall semester is beginning its descent to the fast-approaching holidays, I am mindful that slews of papers will soon make their way to me for grading. Reflecting on these writing assignments, I ...