Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. When students can’t understand what they’re reading, it may be because ...

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 ...

Think about all of your ideas and what you would like to do with them. Write or draw them out and see if you can find a connection between these ideas. Limit your ideas Find a connection that links ...

For a first-year Bates student, the leap from high school to college-level writing can be a daunting one. You tackle new genres, you look at evidence more critically. And you learn that at Bates, good ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach writing? Teaching and learning good writing can be a challenge to educators and ...

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 ...