With digital communications increasingly replacing books, newspapers and magazines, the art of writing is not what it used to be for many people. This can have serious consequences for small ...

Writing instruction in early education should be about more than letter formation and penmanship, argue researchers who found preschool teachers don't often encourage writing for communication ...

The great writer Samuel Beckett once said that “words are all we have.” Each day—which includes going to work each morning for many of us—we speak an average of 16,000 words. In fact, during one study ...

Do you envy a colleague who can effortlessly fire off an email that’s well-written and well-received? The good news is that great communicators aren’t born; they’re made through deliberate practice.

Knowing why you’re writing something sounds so obviously fundamental that most writers don’t even consider it. When’s the last time you paused before composing an email to ask “What is the purpose of ...

Erica, a staff engineer at a construction consulting firm, was faced with a dilemma. Her manager asked her to follow up with the client about a proposal they had submitted the week before, but she was ...

Communication isn't about the way the message is transmitted. It's isn't even about the message itself. Communication is about understanding, and how it is mutually transmitted between a sender and a ...

Communication Intensive (CI) courses are part of the CWRU Unified General Education Requirements (UGER). The Writing Program offers a number of courses that fulfill this requirement. All CI courses ...

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Written communication involves any type of interaction that makes use of the written word. Communication is a key to any endeavor involving more than one person. Communicating through writing is ...