Not every academic is a grammar geek. Yet most of us have pet peeves that tend to irk us when we spot them in our students’ work. And we’re spotting them more than ever, thanks to the hit that ...

A few weeks ago, I cited several TV shows and movies that provided, of all things, grammar lessons. Then I asked you to send me more examples. As Gomer Pyle might have said, “Goll-ee!” Cindy Carlin ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We received our grammar lessons from Grandmother Diss sitting on metal chairs on an angled front porch. For every page of correctly completed work, we earned ...

The Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced Thursday. Roy Peter Clark, a writing teacher at the Poynter Institute, offers an essay about how all the big, notable writers in the world once started ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How should we teach grammar to students? Our students need to learn grammar, but the real question is how to teach it in ways that don’t bore them out of their minds.

Benjamin Miller works for the University of Sydney. University students across the nation will be handing in their first assignments of the academic year over the next few weeks. Academic staff will ...

Dave Robles, an elementary school teacher from New York City, uses rap beats to help his students learn grammar lessons. Keeping kids' attention is a huge challenge for any teacher. At St. Charles ...