Communication, Email Writing, Writing Writing to Your Child’s Teacher (Part One) As the mother of a five-year-old girl who recently started kindergarten, Ashley is amazed at how much school has changed…
Academic Writing, Business, Writing Organizing Your Academic Paper or Business Report You have selected a topic for an academic paper, or perhaps you need to write a report for work that…
Academic Writing, Writing The Finish Line: How to Write a Conclusion You have almost finished drafting your academic paper or business report. You feel pretty good about your introduction, and you…
Academic Writing, Writing How to Write a Strong Introduction You have been staring at a blank screen for half an hour. Your head is pounding and your eyes are…
Academic Writing, Writing Back to School: How to Ask for Help Haneen, an international student at a large American university, was struggling to complete one of her assignments for an English…
Academic Writing, Writing Back to School: 7 Tips to Help You Ace Your Writing Assignments In North America, the UK, and certain other parts of the world, it’s time to start a new school year….
Communication, Email Writing, Writing Formal vs. Informal Writing: What’s the Difference? You may have noticed some new features at TextRanch lately. In place of our old menu of options, you can…
Grammar, Writing Pronouns and More A pronoun is a word we use in place of a noun or a noun phrase. Pronouns are easier and…
Grammar, Writing Possessives: Where to put the apostrophe and the S We use possessives when we want to show that something belongs to a person, or when people are somehow connected…
Grammar, Writing Plurals: When a Noun Ends in S Sometimes the rules of English seem simple, but then things get a little bit complicated. Let’s look at plural nouns….