All posts by MICHAEL LANGDON

My Favorite Essays

Best Essays: Some of My Favorite Essays “Second Thoughts on Certainty: Saint Jean de Brebeuf among the Hurons”—Tobias Wolff From the Book Tremor of Bliss “A Bag of Possibilities and Other Matters of the Mind“—Robert Fulghum From Newsweek Fall/Winter 1990 “The Missing Ingredient”—Hernando de Soto From the Economist

How Great Writers End Their Articles

How Great Writers End Their Articles What you can learn from the final paragraphs of 100 top feature articles from Malcolm Gladwell, the Atlantic, Fast Company, and the New York Times https://betterhumans.coach.me/how-great-writing-ends-3c8371378def

How Great Writing Begins

I found this great article at BetterHumans that looks at how most non-fiction writing begins using a statistical analysis of modern online magazines such as the Atlantic, Fast Company, and the NYTimes Op-Ed. I think that it could help writing students see what strategies professional

Copy Edit This

The New York Times is widely known for its editors who carefully vet every sentence. Well, they offer readers a Copy Edit This! quiz. You can find them using the links below.  Here are five, but there are a lot more. Copy Edit This! Quiz