WRITING

After this crusading reporter was kicked out of Germany, she continued her anti-Nazi coverage at home.

Like square caps and billowing gowns, Dr. Seuss's 'Oh, the Places You’ll Go!' has become synonymous with graduation ceremonies.

After a long absence from many classrooms in the state, cursive writing will be mandatory in Texas public elementary schools starting next year.

One writer who took the survey called T.S. Eliot the worst living English poet and worst living literary critic. Ouch.

Even handwriting scholars can't read all scripts.

For decades, linguists have been able to use the quirks of written texts to pinpoint the author. The process, called stylometric analysis or stylometry, has dozens of legal and academic applications.

You can quote 'The Raven.' But how well do you know Edgar Allan Poe's quirky sense of humor and code-cracking abilities?

Writers often turn to a thesaurus to diversify their vocabulary and add nuance to their prose. But looking up synonyms and antonyms in a thesaurus can help anyone—writer or not—find the most vivid, incisive words to communicate thoughts and ideas.

There are various interpretations of the relationship at the center of the Shel Silverstein classic—not all of them positive.

The author is talking about the books, which may or may not end the same way as the HBO series.

“Leia follows me like a vague smell.”

Think a post-job interview thank you note has gone the way of calling cards and phone books? Think again.