Whether you're conducting a yearly performance evaluation or a minor productivity checkup, the words you use make a large difference in the quality and message of a review. The right wording ensures ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. So how do we produce readable and clean scientific writing? One of the good elements of style is to ...

In honor of Mark Twain's birthday, here's a piece of writing advice from a letter he wrote to a student named D.W. Bowser: "I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief ...

When you’re writing, adjectives give you the most flexibility to create a vivid picture. It’s also easy to slip into a cliche series of mundane, familiar adjectives. Describing Words helps inspire you ...

Learn how to use adjectives to your advantage. “Badjectives” are adjectives so generic that they have virtually no impact. Examples include “great, amazing, incredible,” and “terrific.” You hear ...

Whether you write for a living, functionally as part of your job, or as little as humanly possible because thinking about high school English still sends you into a cold sweat, we can all use a ...

A report of a review of NAPLAN released in recent days cited the writing part of the test to be the most problematic. The report noted the NAPLAN […] has led to formulaic writing in students’ ...

Big Dave gets to grips with adjectives. Suitable for teaching English Language at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 or equivalent ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Adjectives have always been out there, mobs of them pressing on the outside walls, their faces against the ...