In a move that perfectly captures the digital chaos of modern communication, Dictionary.com has chosen “67” as its Word of the Year for 2025. The decision reflects how quickly internet slang, memes, ...

Like any crappy human writer, AI chatbots have a tendency to overuse specific words — and now, scientists are using that propensity to catch their colleagues when they secretly use it in their work.

In the past few years, writers have been liberated from traditional publishers with the advent of platforms like Substack, and there’s been a mushrooming of individual newsletters. But could it be ...

Numeracy or numerosity, the ability to think about and use numbers, varies among human cultures and within populations, much like intelligence does. Many known languages, for example, have no words ...

An eye-tracking study in Switzerland found that adults make 2.5 times more fixations (focusing their eyes on a single point) when reading short numbers compared to short words. For long numbers and ...

Thus far, even AI companies have had trouble coming up with tools that can reliably detect when a piece of writing was generated using a large language model. Now, a group of researchers has ...

Writing a check correctly can be intimidating, especially if you’re out of practice — or never learned. The less you use your checkbook, the more confusing it can be — especially when it comes to ...

Creating a hanging indent in Microsoft Word is essential for formatting documents according to various style guides such as APA, MLA, and Chicago. This tutorial will guide you through the steps to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Matthew Prock. Writing is hard. As an English major and student journalist, I am ...