Whatโs said in a courtroom matters, not just during the trial, but afterward. Imagine what would happen if judges couldnโt go back and review cases in full because those cases existed for only a brief moment in time, turning to nothing but a note of the verdict afterward. To preserve courtroom contents, people have been keeping an official record [...]
Before technology put a computer in your pocket, information was harder to come by. Secretaries, stenographers, journalists, court reporters, and many other professionals struggled with the gap between the information they needed to share and the information they could retain at a time. Thus, the ability to write in shorthand became an invaluable professional skill, one that served as [...]
If you read an autobiography or a personal journal, you likely assume that you are reading the words as the author intended them. If the work has been translated, surely the content sticks as close as possible to the original, right? You may be surprised. Translation comes with risks, and one of the most salient is the threat [...]
Some school lessons give students a sneaking suspicion that they're being forced to learn something they won't need in real life - long division, memorizing the periodic table, writing in cursive, etc. Learning how to write an argumentative essay, however, will pay dividends down the road. Strictly speaking, an argumentative essay is "a piece of writing that uses logical [...]
