While most people cite Dr. Suess as their favorite...  ...n children’s books that he decided to start writing his own titles. His first book, The Great Big Car...  ...eans on his head. As a result, he largely stopped writing these titles and Random House stopped distributin...  ...son Richard Scarry Jr. ca...

Ostrich eggshells with patterns engraved on them w...  ...at before this discovery, the first signs of art, writing or 'culture' was thought to have been first shown...  ...civilised behaviour, they said. In other words, writing writing . The researchers examined 270 fragments o...

New technologies are often blamed for the “dumbi...  ...of Stanford University studied college students' writing and how it changed from 2002 to 2006. The first...  ...e, and it almost always involves text. Of all the writing that the Stanford students did, a stunning 38 per...  ...cent of it took place out o...

Schools are spending less time than ever teaching...  ..., only 15% of college-bound students used cursive writing . The rest wrote in print. Some teachers argue tha...  ...The rest wrote in print. Some teachers argue that writing in script helps hand-eye coordination, even thoug...  ...son why they should vest...

Yes, in the midst of sweet, sunny, sweltering, early-summer days, with the gnats swirling around your head and the bees singing their bzzzzy song, the incomparable results of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have...

Ever since the dawn of civilization, men have demonstrated their cultural sophistication, scientific knowledge and philosophical aptitude in written word kept in libraries for peers and, less often, the public, to access...

I won! 50,039 words with three hours to spare. How did the rest of you NaNo participants do? Will you do it again next year? Are you celebrating? I am, although it's a pretty meager celebration: a beer and some guil...