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Bear allows you to write everything from quick ideas to essays and even books, then send your work to just about anywhere it can go. You can use tags, todos, cross-note links, and Markdown to stay ...

No one wants their writing to be the subject of ridicule and disdain, but that’s the lot of many academic writers, whose turgid, clumsy, lumpy prose is deemed largely unapproachable by a general ...

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A fine prose style, if we are veteran readers, and equal to it, affords one of the most delicious experiences in the whole world of art. It is so subtle and fastidious that it must be considered very ...

Francine Prose says she wrote Reading Like a Writer for “desperate MFA teachers” (herself included) faced with students who could parse the structural weaknesses of a fellow student’s story, but “had ...

Rockman says that he appreciates the recognition, but notes that his ‘gold rush’ piece was a commentary, a format that allows for greater freedom of expression than a straightforward research article.