All artistic structures are said to possess three formative and aesthetic qualities: order, connection, and rhythm. Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver’s Travels, once defined good style in writing ...

Centuries ago, the word “stickler” meant the judge of a duel who made sure all the rules were obeyed. To author Lynne Truss, those were the good old days. At least people listened to that kind of ...

Emmy J. Favilla is Global Copy Chief and creator of the BuzzFeed Style Guide and author of A World Without “Whom”: The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age. If a friend texts me with a ...

RICHMOND, Va. - In an era when students’ social media skills often surpass their writing skills, many American high school students are just not prepared for the rigorous college curriculums that ...

Mike Abramson is the master of federal government printing style. Anyone wondering about the proper use of “whereas” in a resolution, feeling confounded by the canons of capitalization in a committee ...

While we all slip up from time to time, there are some basic punctuation mistakes you should never make in formal writing. For example, don't confuse "it's" and "its," don't use an apostrophe to ...