Making more spelling mistakes lately may be more than fatigue or distraction. Research in early stages of dementia, ...

Evaluating children's writing can be discouraging. Often it is full of incomplete thoughts, misspellings, erasures. Looking at it from our adult perspective, we tend to see only what is wrong, failing ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- How might you drag a good writer's work down to the level of a lesser scribe? Try the spell-check button. A study at the University of Pittsburgh indicates spell-check software may ...

You’re reading this article. Should it change your opinion of the piece’s quality to know that its author was white, black, or of another race? No, if you’re evaluating it on its merits. Yet a new ...

Their writing is judged on six traits, including organization and sentence fluency. Conventions—which includes spelling, capitalization, and similar features that spell check can detect and fix—is the ...

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Amid the launch of the Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee, research reveals how gender roles impact girls’ and boys’ spelling skills. Analysis of more than 150,000 writing samples from boys and girls in ...

You often hear people explaining dyslexia in narrower terms that does not do service to the totality and complexity of the problem. Dyslexia is largely framed as a problem with reading. This framing ...