“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 ...

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 ...

Writing for meaning and purpose requires more than syntactical and grammatical accuracy; pupils must be aware of their ...

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 ...

The actress and author of the forthcoming cookbook 'I Love You' told 'Better Homes & Gardens' what writing means to her Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

U want 2B a better writer? Good writing is often looked at as an art and, frankly, that can be intimidating. No need to worry. There are rules — even science — behind writing well. Our brain works a ...

In a workshop to discuss how academic and creative writing are related, my colleagues and I spent most of our time talking about guilt. All of us felt guilty about the hours we had spent writing ...

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 ...