(Editor’s note: “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times” is the fourth in a series of writing and language books written by Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown, beginning ...

Accessibility is fundamentally about making sure people can access the content you create. To create an accessible Word document, you will need to consider the accessibility of all the information in ...

What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different ...

The ability to encapsulate ideas in symbols and then to share those symbols with other people is one of humanity’s most profound gifts. Whether we use language to coo to our grandchildren, to tell our ...