“If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.” - Kurt Vonnegut Fellow literature nerds will know that just by naming this piece “Why I Write,” I am inviting ...

When curricula only focus on strict, narrow assessments, we disenfranchise students from the true power of writing. Writing teaches us to communicate our feelings, identities and our relationships in ...

Energy flows where intention goes, and sometimes the most powerful intentions begin with the simplest rituals! When it comes to affirmations, for example, they tend to stick with us. That’s why it’s ...

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

I write because I am terrified of forgetting. Not the mundane forgetting of where I placed my keys or what I ate for breakfast, but something more profound — the forgetting of who I was at a ...

There’s been much discussion about the needless complexity of academic writing. In a widely read article in The Chronicle of Higher Education last year, Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at ...

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