When we think about relationships, we tend to think about our connections with others—our partners, friends, family members, and co-workers. This post focuses on a relationship that often gets ...

This GradHacker post was written by Julie Platt, Michigan State University PhD student in Writing and Rhetoric Studies, @AristotleJulep Just before Christmas, I finished the second of a set of ...

You can’t just tell the reader the emotion your character is experiencing, you have to show them. You do this by creating images using bricks of significant detail. God and the devil are in the detail ...

What if there was a simple exercise that you could do anywhere in just a few minutes that was scientifically shown to improve your mood and your outlook on the future, at least for a while? Would you ...

Ms. Kadish is the author of the novel “The Weight of Ink.” “Write down a phrase you find abhorrent — something you yourself would never say.” My students looked startled, but they cooperated. They ...

Most of the time, when we sit down to write, we write with the expectation that we’ll eventually use some or most of the words that we produce. And whether we’re writing an email, a business proposal, ...

Get your creativity nice and limber by loosening up any ideas you have in your head. Did you know that your brain is a muscle? Or maybe you’re thinking of your skin? For a writing warmup, spend ...

At one time or another, most students feel antsy going into a big test. But how students interpret those sweaty palms and racing pulse can make or break their performance. A new study in the ...