Most people know a good sentence when they read one, but New York Times columnist Stanley Fish says most of us don't really know how to write them ourselves. His new book, How To Write A Sentence ...

The best way to write a perfect sentence is to lower your standards. I hope that advice doesn’t come across as some bait and switch, that there is no such thing as a perfect sentence.

Using complex sentences can make it easier to add layers of information and detail when writing. Complex sentences have at least one subordinate clause that adds more detail and information to the ...

It was a brief for brevity. “Vigorous writing is concise,” Strunk wrote. “When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter.” Half a century later, when preparing his old ...

The introduction is where authors outline their research topic and describe their study. It is where they provide background information and showcase their writing and argumentation styles. For these ...

William Zinsser, On Writing Well No one wants a dead article! A story that goes unread is pointless. The lead is the introduction — the first sentences — that should pique your readers ...