Why is it so hard to write something people will actually READ? It’s one thing to share your thoughts and feelings on a topic, but it’s an entirely different thing to do it in a way that makes a ...

The hardest part about sitting down to write is the actual beginning of making the clackity sound on the keyboard. I can get myself in the chair. I can turn on my machine. I can cruise around on the ...

This third entry in an occasional series from Roy Peter Clark, who witnessed the Poynter Institute’s founding, explores its history in honor of its 50th anniversary. It would be hard to estimate how ...

Of all the pearls of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years, among the most valuable consists of just three words: intuition is bias. The Romantic poets may have believed that intuition offers special ...

Putting pen to paper slows your thinking, allowing you to process information, form conclusions and create meaning.

Writing a blog post isn't exactly rocket science. But, there are definitely strategies that can take a good blog post and make it great. I've written literally thousands of blog posts for sites like ...

How do educators design tasks in which students construct their own knowledge; conceptually demonstrate their understanding through application, analyzation, or interpretations; and elaborately ...

These questions originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Lois Lowry, author, The Giver: Q: What is the process that a writer goes through while writing a novel? A: I sit alone in a room every day and ...