As someone with ADHD who writes for a living, I need to block out as many distractions as possible when I’m writing. I ...

Reading and writing were always my favorite subjects when I was in school, and I can still remember when I was taught that a proper paragraph had five sentences in it. It was probably around fourth ...

A 7-year-old’s homework assignment using the word “down’ in a sentence is trending up after it was posted on social media. Summer Toson, 25, was watching her younger sister, Malak, complete a ...

In today’s fast-paced world, inspiration can sometimes be found in the most concise and straightforward sources – one sentence writing prompts. These compact sparks of creativity enable writers to ...

Over recent days, I took on a daunting task — but a delightful one. I reviewed all the passages of prose featured in the For the Love of Sentences section of my Times Opinion newsletter in 2023 and ...

Photographs by Erinn Springer Ms. Barnhill is the author of “The Ogress and the Orphans.” She experienced a traumatic brain injury in 2021. I’ve been trying to write this essay for a very long time.

Help children improve and vary sentence openers in creative, persuasive and essay writing with these activities, ideas, lessons and more… Sentence openers, also known as sentence starters, are words ...

Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...

The internet is increasingly awash with text written by AI software. We need new tools to detect it. This sentence was written by an AI—or was it? OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, presents us with a ...

The oldest readable sentence written using the first alphabet has been found on the side of an ivory comb. The words are carefully inscribed in letters 1 to 3 millimetres wide and take the form of a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Most year 9 students are structuring sentences at a level expected of those two years their junior and are using punctuation like ...