As poet Sam Illingworth, a professor at Edinburgh Napier University, explains, “poetry has a profound ability to help reframe ...

These strategies can guide your high school senior through brainstorming, drafting and polishing a strong personal statement.

Discover Mondrian's Composition III at Christie's London Evening Sale, a major auction event during Frieze Week in 2026.

Strange descriptions that force you to think of one sense in terms of another can make you imagine more intensely than ...

Take the dense statutory scheme in Bowe v. United States. The court had to grapple with the government’s argument that one ...

"A lot of [lawyers] have stopped reading enough good fiction and journalism, and need to unlearn the habits of using fancy Latinate legalisms. Why do we say ‘forthwith’ rather than ‘at once’? Why do ...

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar ...

The National Council of Teachers of English executive committee voted Friday to dissolve the Conference on College Composition and Communication—CCCC, or often called the “4Cs”—and absorb its ...

REPETITION is done for emphasis. Makes the reader feel the main idea is important. Today we repeat the familiar answer to the question, what is a short story? One assertion given by an expert is that ...

You never know how an audience will respond to a work of art, but you can show them where to look. This is what’s at the heart of the compositional technique known as leading lines. Used across all ...