Far too many students find schoolwork to be boring. There are multiple reasons, but a main one is that academic instruction is typically framed in plain-vanilla, academic language and style. In the ...

Far too many students find schoolwork to be boring. There are multiple reasons, but a main one is that academic instruction is typically framed in "plain-vanilla," academic language and style. In the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between “colloquial ...

A friend of mine received a call from his colleague: “Sir, good morning. Sorry for disturbing you in the early morning. I have been suffering from fever since yesterday evening. I consulted a ...