Unlike texting and email, old-fashioned letters, hand-addressed and sent in the mail, are "read intentionally," says Rachel ...

If you keep a journal, consider swapping one day to jot down thoughts to a friend. Letter writing is similarly meditative, Dr ...

This story was originally published on April 24, 2025, and has been updated. The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the ...

The holiday season offers a good excuse to sit down and write a letter to someone you’ve been out of touch with, an exercise that benefits you and your recipient more than you might expect. Studies ...

Explore research on handwriting automaticity and sentence construction, plus strategies to improve writing instruction across grades K–3.

Summer stretches before us, with all its potential for meeting research and writing goals. But if you’re going on the faculty-job market for the first time — as a recent Ph.D. or an advanced doctoral ...

Anyone who finds themselves smitten in the year 2023 isn’t wanting for ways to shoot their shot. Obvious next steps might include a DM slide or the time-honored late-night “u up?” text. Or they could ...