I recently read a book to my 4½-year-old daughter that I immediately took out of her room and decided never to read again.

Perhaps you've heard of the inverted pyramid. This elderly news-story construction, which puts the most boring/trivial details at the bottom, is a relic of newspaper writing that needed to be cut ...

The other week I asked a friend at the University of Connecticut: “What is the Dove Tower and Inverted Pyramid?” The response: “I have no clue what that is.” When I proclaimed it was the ...