Hamlet isn’t the only one to dismiss written compositions as simply “Words, words, words,” without any larger significance or meaning. So, too, do too many of my students, who treat writing ...

There’s one piece of advice few writing coaches would quibble with: Keep it simple. Simple wording speeds readers’ and listeners’ mental processing. It coaxes them to hang onto your words. Researchers ...

When James M. Lang published the book On Course in 2008 and garnered notable success, his editor invited him to dinner. She suggested that Lang might be interested in writing a book about cheating.