A writing assistant is so valuable when it takes your writing and improves it.

If you're a writer or dream of becoming one, you already know that new writing opportunities come and go on a daily basis.

Nothing makes you or your business sound unprofessional quite like typos and grammatical errors. Yet, not everyone is an editor or has the budget to hire a proofreader. That’s where using the best ...

Should you keep a separate checking account for writing checks? Is there a specific pen you should use? We answer some reader questions. By Tara Siegel Bernard Typewriters vanished, and then cassette ...

Although check use has declined in the last couple of decades, check fraud has risen sharply, creating a problem for banks — and customers trying to pay their bills. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New ...

A big banking industry group, not surprisingly perhaps, suggests that consumers stop writing paper checks to stamp out the proliferation of check washing scams. Stop writing checks? It's seriously one ...

In an increasingly digital world where we rely on automatic payments, we may wonder if writing checks will become obsolete. For those who still need them, though, checks are a vital part of their ...

A couple of months ago, Ellen Fitzgerald got a text message from her electrician saying he hadn’t received payment for some minor work on her house in Newbury. But Fitzgerald had written a check for ...

If you’ve ever pulled an all-nighter to finish a paper, you know that the last step – clicking submit – comes with its own kind of panic. Did I cite everything right? What if my essay looks too ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A woman lost more than $13,000 after she ...