Writing about trauma risks polishing the pain, forcing neat closures, and smoothing out what resists language altogether. It also risks dipping into the cliché or the sensational. So how does a writer ...

Small businesses reviewing their banking records may notice something unusual in their withdrawal statement under the heading "Descriptive Withdrawal." Despite the name, statements rarely show much ...

Phenomenological investigations are concerned with unfolding the nature of a phenomenon through the process of describing and understanding subjective lived experiences. The process through which this ...

Writing has the ability to energize and engage students, transforming the classroom into a vibrant community of storytellers. Although narrative writing is usually regarded as an expression of ...

Narrative writing is where children create stories with a clear structure – beginning, middle, and end – while developing characters, setting and a simple plot. Practising narrative writing helps ...

We are bombarded by distractions every moment of every day. Some of them are of our own making; others are basically unavoidable. As I sat writing this story my Fitbit reminded me to get up and move, ...

Joel Heng Hartse receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is also president of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and ...

Handwriting notes in class might seem like an anachronism as smartphones and other digital technology subsume every aspect of learning across schools and universities. But a steady stream of research ...

Writing something down rather than typing it on a computer could help you retain the information better, after researchers found putting pen to paper boosts connectivity between different areas of the ...