Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. When students can’t understand what they’re reading, it may be because ...

Writers choose and build different types of sentences carefully. There are three main types of sentence structure - simple close simple sentenceA sentence containing one clause made up of a subject ...

For a first-year Bates student, the leap from high school to college-level writing can be a daunting one. You tackle new genres, you look at evidence more critically. And you learn that at Bates, good ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

Think about all of your ideas and what you would like to do with them. Write or draw them out and see if you can find a connection between these ideas. Limit your ideas Find a connection that links ...

There are a few rules that are drummed so incessantly into our heads in school that we cannot help but internalize them. One is "No sentence fragments!" Actually, that should be "Don't use sentence ...