You can go to the Best Sentences of 2023 here and of 2024 here. Those collections, like this one, wouldn’t exist without your ...

I vividly recall when an editor in chief invited me to publish in a well-known journal. Fresh from defending my dissertation, I still grappled with understanding how publishing worked in academia—like ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Matthew Prock. Writing is hard. As an English major and student journalist, I am ...

A single sentence from a faculty mentor cut deeper than I expected—because it wasn’t the first time my voice had been questioned. I spent decades believing I was not good enough to become a writer.

In an age of endless words, Hemingway wrote with a rifleman’s precision. Here’s how. He didn’t waste ink. He stripped sentences down to their bare bones and nerves. His sentences were clean, sharp, ...

Reading and writing were always my favorite subjects when I was in school, and I can still remember when I was taught that a proper paragraph had five sentences in it. It was probably around fourth ...