Some of my fellow faculty members and I believe that Facebook is teaching our students Web skills.

Writing coaches give their advice on editing and writing. The big secret: Early editing gives both writers and editors more control.

At the 1997 National Writers’ Workshop in Wilmington, Steve Twomey said that an anecdote is great under only two circumstances. First, if it is exactly right, which too often is not the case, and second, if you can segue into the story quickly and without the ever-popular ”John Doe is typical of ….”