Numbers are not just a tool for analysis. Numbers also communicate. Once you’ve figured out the numbers for your story, the next step is to be able to use them clearly in your writing. No matter how ...

That’s why writers who want to be read are careful about how they use numbers in their stories. Bill Blundell was an award-winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper written for a ...

To the editor: Stephen Marche’s fanciful essay on the increase of numerical orientation in literature is both historically questionable and oddly limited to “verse” to make his case. (“The act of ...

In the early 1970s mathematician Donald Knuth spent a sabbatical with his wife in Norway. The time was meant to be spent relaxing. Yet one night he woke up his partner in a state of agitation. He ...

Nearly every piece of writing produced inside an institution of higher education has numbers in it. Lots of numbers. And as data become easier to produce in this digital age, academic writing will ...