This isn’t just a fancy thesaurus—it’s a writing assistant that gives you access to words, phrases, metaphors, even pop ...

Word macros save mouse clicks and keyboard strokes in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). It may sound complex at a glance, ...

A reflection on Donald Murray’s timeless lessons — on the writing process and problems all writers must solve — as Poynter turns 50 ...

Writing an important letter or a company report, we may question our word choice and tone, and anxiously check and recheck to make sure what we've written makes sense. It is probably no accident ...

Circumlocutions are commonly used roundabout expressions that take several words to say what could be said more succinctly. We often overlook them because many such expressions are habitual figures of ...

From that information, we can write a word equation to represent the reaction. The reactants are iron and oxygen, they go on the left hand side. Iron plus oxygen. We use an arrow to show the ...