The Cengage Blog

Students know how it feels: you spend hours crafting the perfect email—and then nothing. You refresh and refresh, check on your phone, laptop, and desktop. We know how it feels. Here are three...

Good paragraphs are built by using transitional expressions to glue ideas together, creating a logical and cohesive whole. Skilled writers use several techniques to make paragraphs stick together. One such technique is...

Whether to use words or figures to express numbers is governed by convention. That is, we follow customary techniques or rules. Frequently Used Number Rules General rules. Use words for numbers one through ten. (We have ten computers and three printers....

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThey sure do! But a Wall Street Journal article (She’s Not Mad. She’s Just Not Using Exclamation Points) says women are expected to use more exclamation points, and they face a...