Allison Christians, the H. Heward Stikeman chair in Tax Law at McGill University, tells Tax Notes Executive Editor for Commentary Jasper Smith about her principles for writing good papers in law ...

Writing starts way before you put letters to a page. It involves processes like critical thinking, communication, and creativity. Even if writing feels like pulling teeth, you can apply the principles ...

Graduate students are excited about the fieldwork phase of their research. It is thrilling to interview people, dig into archives, crunch numbers, and observe experiments in a lab. Unfortunately, when ...

About five years ago, I wrote a book called Principles: Life and Work. The book outlines the principles for success–frameworks for rational decision-making–that I developed for myself and Bridgewater.

The title should be concise, specific, and precise, can summarize the gist of the article, conform to the relevant principles of compiling the bibliography, index and retrieval, and help to select ...

I have been grading student essays for many years. Reading good essays is what every teacher wishes for yet rarely gets--a revitalizing and uplifting experience. More commonly I read bad essays.

Nothing is worse than bad writing. It’s recognizable within the first few sentences – either consciously or subconsciously. Bad writing is full of “noise”; it contains complicated words and ideas, and ...