When the Georgetown Academy appeared to be making a comeback on campus this fall, we were initially hopeful that it would effectively fill a needed role on campus: that of the sober, dispassionate ...

Boys and girls at Hampton Middle School in Georgia were instructed by their teacher to write letters to lawmakers calling for stricter gun control laws. "You are trying to persuade lawmakers to have ...

This is the second of a two-part series on what does and doesn’t persuade. The first column identified tactics that don’t work, such as adverbial intensification (e.g., “clearly,” “simply,” “ever”) ...

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Or at least how to try. By Trish Hall Ms. Hall is the author of “Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side.” We’re all writers now. We fling words out into the universe through text, ...