Imagine this: You’re a writer working on a script or—better yet—you’ve just finished your latest draft. You’ve spent months crafting characters, structuring plot, and developing story. You put the ...

In addition to being an editor at Insider, I'm also a first-time published author. I wrote the bulk of my debut novel, "This Way Out," in just one month in 2020. My key advice is to write what you ...

Writing for a general audience means writing for educated adults who are not a part of your field. The first step is to recognize jargon within your writing and rewrite to avoid or clearly explain ...

The written word is an essential part of being a human. Most people today who live in modern societies experience writing ...

Regardless of how much an individual might know, poor presentation of their research and analysis damages their credibility. Disentangling the meaning of sentences or reading through irrelevant ...

Not as magical as you might think. Well, let’s hold on for a second. Many versions of the college essay may well be dead; that’s not a bad thing, for reasons we’ll get into. English class (which I ...

I s the college essay dead? Are hordes of students going to use artificial intelligence to cheat on their writing assignments? Has machine learning reached the point where auto-generated text looks ...