I have never really felt like I belonged anywhere. My father was an involuntary immigrant, mother the black sheep of her family. When I was a kid, my family moved to a small town in Michigan, away ...

One of my personal mantras about writing is that writing is thinking. Writing involves both the expression and the exploration of an idea, where the writing itself changes the shape of the original ...

“Sounds Right to Me” is an occasional column in which Megan Reynolds and Emily Alford, Jezebel’s logic experts, explain why something that sounds wrong is actually completely right. In our inaugural ...

Writing is hard. As an English major and student journalist, I am painfully aware of this fact. I am reminded of it every single time I sit in front of my computer, fingers hovering over my keyboard ...

Early European hunter-gatherers developed a sophisticated method of information storage long before the advent of formal ...

Business documents -- such as letters, emails, memorandums and reports -- use paragraphs to separate different types of information, arguments and ideas. Paragraphs written in business format are ...

I was a science kid in high school; I loved physics and mathematics. When I learned my senior year that I was assigned to the English teacher with a reputation as the most rigorous in school, I ...