When a friend of mine – I’ll call her Carol – asked me to help with a job cover letter last weekend, I said sure, piece of cake. I write and edit for a living. How difficult could it be to fix a page ...

Has the five-paragraph essay, long a staple in school writing curricula, outlived its usefulness? The venerable writing tool has largely fallen out of favor among influential English/language arts ...

"Write a paragraph on traffic jams." Have you been asked to do so in school? I was too. My teacher sometimes asked me, "Write a SHORT paragraph on a winter morning." A short paragraph! A paragraph on ...

Once you’ve established yourself on LinkedIn, it won’t be long until you’re asked to write a recommendation — it’s inevitable. Some of us may even have a few requests sitting in our inbox right now.

I’ve been reading thick books recently, most about the war in the Middle East. These books have hundreds of characters in them, some major players, and some who make cameo appearances. How to ...

As a business owner, you might not have much time to write a sales letter, yet it is an important part of a sales campaign. A sales letter does not have to take a long time to write because people don ...

The latter half of Rion Amilcar Scott's outstanding new collection, The World Doesn't Require You, is the brilliant novella "Special Topics in Loneliness Studies," about a college professor at the ...

A nonprofit organization constantly needs to raise funds to serve the community or carry out its specific mission. While there are many different ways for organizations to raise funds, large donations ...