The high priests of education promote formalism because it seems more impressive and more authoritative. Students, however, live in their own world of distinctively informal language, and teenagers ...

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 Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract While some studies indicate that adults can efficiently utilize informal linguistic environments for second language acquisition, other ...

Biologists in particular are writing their papers in a less formal style. We are not supposed to use first-person pronouns, and contractions aren’t allowed. These rules also discourage unattended ...

Writing assignments at the university level often require an academic voice. There are certain aspects of academic voice that are more formal than every day, conversational speech. Typically, academic ...

If you walk into one of the smaller dining rooms in Thorne Hall at dinner time, there’s a good chance you’ll hear a language other than English being spoken. If you walk into one of the smaller dining ...

Japanese actor Sato Takeru is facing criticism from Korean viewers due to his rude behavior. His informal language and comments about hierarchy, which seemed excessive for a first meeting, have become ...