The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...

I always tell my students that I'm not their language nanny. I'm an educator, and I deal with content. Ironically, however, I blue-pencil as many errors–mostly grammatical–as I can while checking ...

Use AI grammar checkers like Grammarly for instant feedback and improved writing. Consider tools like WordTune for crafting analogies and obtaining custom writing suggestions. ProWritingAid is ideal ...

The role of grammar instruction in the development of effective writing has long been recognised as a cornerstone of educational practice. Recent pedagogical models emphasise the integration of ...

Let’s be honest—grammar isn’t the most exciting topic. It reminds most of us of red marks on school essays or confusing rules that seem to trip us up. But what if grammar wasn’t about rules at ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A recent report into Australia’s NAPLAN results showed that in 2019 close to a quarter of boys and 10 per cent of girls in year 9 were ...

Writing an article like this is just asking for trouble. My evidence lies in the vehement protestations that I face when going through solutions to an editing test or grammar quiz with on-campus ...

Call me a grammar nerd or a snob. I don’t care. I’ve been called worse. I’ve been called a “wordsmith,” a term tossed out by folks who undervalue good writing. What’s worse is that some have used it ...

A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons—those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech—don’t help and may even hinder students’ efforts to become better ...

The first time Bryan A. Garner, a lawyer and writer, met Antonin Scalia—over breakfast at the Washington, D.C., Four Seasons, in 2006—the Justice spent the early part of their conversation praising a ...