I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

One incredibly simple and powerful method for breaking through this paralyzing feeling is freewriting. In his book, Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process, Peter Elbow, a ...

With a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in creative writing, Alexandra Kostoulas has had many teachers and learned many approaches to writing, but of all the courses she's taken, the one that ...

Some teachers inspire, some influence and still others innovate. John Schultz did all that and more, living passionately and vigorously in a world of words. “All aspects of my life are unified by ...

Leonardo DiCaprio's immersive acting method could inspire a new technique for authors Could writers benefit from the same tactics as method actors, who immerse themselves in extreme surroundings in ...

Jay-Z’s method of songwriting is rather unconventional. The rapper said that when he began working on music as a teenager, he painstakingly wrote down everything that passed through his mind. As he ...

It is not uncommon for inventors to want to attempt to draft and file patent applications on their own, and I frequently get asked about sample patent applications. Here is where you as an inventor ...

Hard disk systems have recently encounted a storage density ceiling. Most methods in use today have a limit of a few hundred gigabytes per square inch thanks to perpendicular recording. To try to keep ...

Could writers benefit from the same tactics as method actors, who immerse themselves in extreme surroundings in order to prepare for a role? Every February, as the Oscars roll around, movie fans revel ...