Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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Whether you’re looking for a job or are among the millions of remote workers, your writing skills have never been more important. Here’s how to brush up and get better. Great communication is critical ...

If you are a grammar warrior who flinches whenever you see the word 'your' misused across your social feeds and know when to use the words 'there,' their,' and 'they're,' you will want to tell all of ...

Over the past three years, Joshua Wilson, assistant professor in the University of Delaware’s School of Education (SOE), has studied how computer software could be used to evaluate and improve student ...

If you want to succeed in the business of online marketing, then you need to learn how to write incredible content. It's a no-brainer. Well-written content will help you to stand out among the ...

The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. It’s younger than agriculture, music, and construction. And as recently as the Revolutionary War, a majority ...

Claudia Alant, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student from Niskayuna, N.Y., has worked for the Writing Commons for five semesters. Since she was in high school, Alant has participated in ...

Among the so-called soft skills, writing skills hold outsize influence, because someone wrote everything that is read–and a lot of reading goes on in every businessperson’s day. Whether it is an ...

Whether you want to be in business, human services, healthcare or any other field, good communication skills can help you succeed. How you interact with others matters, whether that interaction occurs ...