Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...

In the preceding six chapters, we reviewed the various types of parallelism when constructing sentences. We saw how using the same function words can match and balance the clauses and phrases in a ...

THE MARK of good writers is not simply the richness of their ideas and knowledge of grammar, but also their ability to set their thoughts in parallel. Even great minds would tend to communicate poorly ...