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 ...

‘Language is power, power to communicate, express your ideas, and be a part of society,’ said Claudette Vigueras, a migrant from Mexico, during the opening of a conference on ‘Informal language ...

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 ...