Bill White: Judges pick the best of writing so bad that it’s good

Even though it’s billed as a bad writing contest, I tend to choose sentences that are well-written but weird and funny, which ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: There are needless words that harm sentence structure. You’ve just read three of them.

Good news, kind of. I discovered a new sentence structure I hate. It’s a pattern I see often but only recently, while editing an article, realized it belongs in my writing hall of shame. Why would I ...
The Conversation

Too many adjectives, not enough ideas: how NAPLAN forces us to teach bad writing

Lucinda McKnight receives funding from the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. A report of a review of NAPLAN released in recent days cited the writing part of the test to be the most ...