I’ll spare you the earliest history of writing and skip to 200 A.D., when “paragraphs,” which could loosely be understood as changes in topic, speaker or stanza, were denoted by myriad ...

Most students when asked to write a paragraph or two on any stipulated topic begin producing lengthy essays overflowing with details. The practice is like an epidemic in government schools ...

Mesopotamia’s 6,000-year-old cylinders with antique symbols uncover birth of writing. Story by Maria Mocerino • 1w.

The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in the exchange of farming produce and textiles, a new study suggests ...

The Origin of the Pilcrow, aka the Strange Paragraph Symbol It is now nearly invisible in word-processing programs, but it was one of the most elaborate of manuscript ornaments ...