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 ...

Short sentences are most effective when used rarely; continually using short sentences creates stilted, awkward prose. However, neither should you start writing paragraph-long sentences! Rather, you ...

I recently saw Austin’s Hip Hop Theater Explosion, the city’s equivalent of the old Motown Revue—a showcase for the city’s leading rappers, slam poets, tap dancers, break-dancers and much more. This ...