While the list format has always been around, with the rise of viral trends in the past fifteen years, lists have really taken off as an art form of their own. A successful list article can have an ...

Emily Johnston, a writing studies professor at UC Merced, has researched how the act of writing rewires the brain to build ...

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Everybody loves a to-do list. It helps us feel organized and productive, right? But the truth is that if you write them the wrong way, they can actually be counter-productive. Have you ever gone to ...

Could the secret to a good night’s sleep be a pencil and paper? Researchers at Baylor University published a study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology that claims writing a “to-do” list helps ...

When we write it down “it helps us organize it. When we see it, it becomes visual and mental. If I don’t have a list with me, but I know I made the list, I will try to see the list in my mind,” ...

One of the most popular formats for written online content is the humble listicle. 55% of bloggers say they’ve published a listicle in the last 12 months (only how-to articles rank higher). But this ...