Writing is a skill often relegated to the backdrop of a student's academic journey, overshadowed by grades, majors, and extracurricular activities. However, the ability to write clearly and ...
Communication skills are essential for creating healthy relationships, maintaining mental health, fostering civic engagement, ...
Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...
Tutors must help new university students build their skills and understanding of academic writing as part of their broader first-year teaching, as Fiona S. Baker explains When students arrive at ...
A written argument is not the same as a verbal argument with a friend – which is often full of passion and you say strongly what you think. When you write to argue, your audience are strangers not ...
According to the most recent data from the National Assessment of Educational Performance (NAEP), two-thirds of K-12 students are not writing at levels expected for their grade level. Even before the ...
The legendary Albert Einstein opined that light travels faster than sound which is why most people appear bright until they speak. The average Kenyan professional often focuses more on their image ...
Tone and style are about how you relate to others. Think about your audience and write in the style they expect. We all have different ways of expressing ourselves in our speech and in our writing. In ...
With American corporations investing some $3 billion annually to upgrade the writing skills of their employees, schools should pay more attention to improving instruction across the curriculum, a ...