As a screenwriter, your words have one job: connect. While you control what hits the page, professional writing demands purpose. Every screenplay balances different styles beneath your unique voice.

Short sentences are most effective when used rarely; continually using short sentences creates stilted, awkward prose. However, neither should you start writing paragraph-long sentences! Rather, you ...

When Jeremy Sell saw the word “poignant” spelled correctly in an essay, the jig was up. Sell, a high school English teacher in California, already suspected that his student had used a generative AI ...

Writing software is a pretty mixed bag. I use Grammarly largely because it’s convenient, and usually pretty good at spotting typos and other clangers. I also usually disagree with about half of its ...

Learn key concepts and strategies in grammar and style to help enhance your writing and confidently respond to the demand of high levels of literacy in the 21st century. With the rise of social media ...

Hamlet isn’t the only one to dismiss written compositions as simply “Words, words, words,” without any larger significance or meaning. So, too, do too many of my students, who treat writing ...

Located in Stokes 418S, the Writing Center offers one-to-one, 50-minute peer consultations to Boston College undergraduates looking for help with their writing. We work with written assignments from ...