Thibault Asselborn worked his way through graduate school by teaching piano. As his students improved their finger dexterity and muscle memory, he discovered the same concepts that help or hinder a ...

Those in the know can spot AI writing from a mile away. Generic garbage with weird phrases and a robotic structure. No personality. No style. Just formulaic words on a page that disengages readers ...

An educational expert spells out why it makes sense to learn handwriting and how parents can help motivate youngsters to pick up a pen or pencil.

Writing by hand engages more of the brain than typing. Scientists say the cognitive demands of handwriting may help keep the ...

You’ve been writing since you were a little kid. It started with scribbles and crayons and now it’s pens, pencils, and cursive with all those swooping, swirling letters. Some kids love handwriting and ...

Have you ever found yourself squinting at your iPad screen, trying to decipher your own handwriting, and wishing it could be just a bit neater? You’re not alone. In our fast-paced digital world, where ...

Similar to previous overseas studies, teachers in our study spent significantly more time teaching paper-based writing than ...

Near the end of 2023, a popular YouTube creator known as hbomberguy released a video on plagiarism — a topic often confined to conversations in composition classrooms. The four-hour video, “Plagiarism ...

Before he died, beloved MIT professor Patrick Winston regularly gave a fascinating and deeply compelling lecture to university students about the value of good communication. In his introduction, he ...

Nobody was taught how to send an email at school, yet it’s an important skill. The average office worker sends 40 emails per day which means one every 12 minutes during an 8 hour work day. Those ...

Editor’s update: The Economist has published a revised version of its style guide. The first words are the hardest. For many of us writing is a slog. Words drip with difficulty onto the page—and ...