As 2025 rolls around, spelling yet another year of reading about writing and writing about reading, we asked the Star Books and Literature family to share their top writing tips for our readers.

This, for me, is a healthy reminder of how good writing happens ... Make the period and the paragraph break your friends. “I believe it’s the most significant strategy that journalists ...

Language, writing and literature shape our world and our experiences in remarkable ways. These forces converge within the field of creative writing, allowing us to push the boundaries of language ...

Using gen AI for writing can boost productivity and quality. But if you’re not careful, you risk losing your unique voice or falling into ethical gray areas. To strike the right balance ...

In creative writing, some will use a single sentence ... types of paragraphs that achieve different things. We have introductory paragraphs that make some claim, define core terms, address the ...

The OU Writing Center is a pedagogical service that supports OU undergraduate and graduate students as well as members of the Norman/OKC community. The primary goal of our services is to help writers ...