A dispute over Chinese pear names has produced a UK ruling that reinforces guidance on descriptiveness, genericism and evidence quality, while confirming that directors can face personal liability for ...

People are often judged for the way they speak, whether that's an accent, a unique speech pattern or even how they pronounce words. While it's not fair, mispronouncing a few simple phrases can make ...

Continuing with our series of posts on adjectives, today we venture into the art of describing places. As I’ve argued elsewhere, adjectives play a crucial role not just in painting vivid pictures in ...

Shunteen Cineus is a third-grade reading teacher at Ruediger Elementary School with over 13 years of experience. Cineus adapts her role daily, acting as a teacher, friend, mom, or nurse depending on ...

Analysis: Figurative language is the term for the many linguistic devices we consciously or subconsciously draw upon in our conversations The traditional method for learning another language was to ...

Build sentences using noun groups. Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. Use your knowledge of adjectives to build and expand ...

A clever teacher used a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich to teach a messy lesson about creative writing. “The students were mind-blown,” Kayleigh Sloan, a first and second grade teacher, tells ...

My first story, published when I was 15, appeared in Alaska Magazine 50 years ago this June. I don’t consider myself an accomplished writer. I feel I’ve written some amusing or educational stories for ...

Film Critic Cigarettes, coffee, candy. According to legend, and to people who spent time with him, these were the things David Lynch would fuel up on, substances that kept him going and contributed to ...

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 ...