It’s nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other informal styles have crept in. The Pew ...

To write a formal letter to the Queen, the convention is to open with ‘Madam’ and close the letter with ‘I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient servant’. Formal writing ...

In Geology and Environmental Earth Science, students use informal writing (like observational notes, data plots, diagrams, etc.)to generate ideas and do the work of science. Scientists rely on many ...

By the time you finish reading this article, you will have read close to a thousand carefully selected words. That may not sound impressive until you consider every one of those words put on its ...