This story is adapted from Yury Kapgan’s article “Of Golf and Ghouls: The Prose Style of Justice Scalia,” which appeared in the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute in 2003. To understand what makes ...

The UAB Writing Center can help you with any kind of writing and at any stage of the process. Whether you need help brainstorming ideas for your history paper, revising your personal statement, or ...

I’m a firm believer in the idea that science fiction is about the present, not the future. And yet when I started to write my first novel, Autonomous, I spent a lot of time agonizing over how to ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. In the most abstract sense, the function of an introductory paragraph is to move the reader from the world of daily life into the ...

Think back to the last time you jotted down a quick note or made a grocery list. Chances are, it wasn’t with pen and paper. Over the past decade, keyboards and screens have quietly replaced ...