In the 16th century journal keeping was so conventional that journals were called “common place books.”Today most people use journals only when something important or particularly memorable happens to them, especially when they’re feeling sad or angry. A sounding board, a calm companion, a repository of secrets and experiences, a journal also provides solitude for [...]

By:David Rabelas of Pangasinan State University

Once you become a student writer you will have the chance to voice what you feel, your thought or idea. One of the problems I have encountered in making my column is the title. Then the words “Simple Graph” came to my mind.

Simple means easy, not complex, and [...]

If you’re like me, your goal as an article writer is to keep readers so absorbed in what you’ve written that they’ll read each of your articles from start to finish.

Here are five ways you can entice your readers into reading your articles all the way through.

1. First of all, your readers must [...]

You know that satisfying feeling you get as a reader when you finally find what you’re looking for? Or how about when the piece you’re reading makes you feel smart, included, peaceful, or inspired? As writer, Don’t you wish you could give your readers that feeling every time? Consider this: When writing, there are three [...]

English has tremendous fluidity. It readily adopts words from foreign languages, often without immediately “anglifying” their spellings or pronunciations. As Shakespeare so aptly demonstrated, English also allows words to be used as various parts of speech without any alteration of form. And English shapes itself differently each generation by accepting and rejecting popular usages and [...]

Instead of worrying about the global meltdown — wringing our hands while computing our losses at the stock market — let’s deliberately find joy that transcends the material plane. Let art and music communicate with the inner chi that is impervious to anxiety, even just for a few hours. If art and music can unlock [...]