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 ...

Brief writing is more formal than conversation. You may say to a colleague that banking regulators are “super sensitive” to issues of integrity because the industry handles so much money, but in a ...

Whether you’re communicating professionally or personally, understanding the difference between formal and informal letters is essential for effective writing. Letters are often a crucial part of ...

AP and NWP teachers participating in the survey report giving students written assignments ranging from research papers to short responses, journaling, and creative writing. The type and frequency of ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? The number of English Language Learners in our schools is growing and, at the ...

For all the hype Millennials get, nearly every K-12 student today is part of its successor generation—Gen Z—a group more plugged in and social than ever before. The internet is awash in surveys ...

Email Writing: Email, also known as electronic mail, is a medium of written communication used to send and receive information over the Internet. It has been in use since the beginning of the Internet ...

As time goes by, I am ever more perplexed by why we make students learn to write the classic five-paragraph essay but have so much less interest in developing their spoken argument skills. As much as ...