Concise text, regardless of format, improves readers’ user experience, lands your message and cultivates your reputation as a reliable, engaging authority.
Professional wordsmiths may feel they have moved beyond writing manuals, but a rereading of ‘The Elements of Style’ offers refreshers that will power up your prose.
Don’t stay stuck. Start crafting something that’s useful, timely or entertaining—or perhaps even controversial.
Perhaps you’ve done it yourself, saying ‘mizzled’ when reading ‘misled.’ To help you avoid a verbal fracas, we offer a cache of common linguistic foie gras. Oops—that should be ‘faux pas.’
Are we bound for nothing more than wrath, anger and partisan bickering? The author believes there’s hope for something better—and it starts with you.
First and foremost, remember that the subject matter should serve your readers. With that in mind, we present a batch of sources to mine for engaging topics.
The user experience is a crucial aspect of landing your message and keeping your audience coming back for more. Here are variations to attract a wider range of readers.
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist died Monday. Over her long and prolific career, she offered many timeless gems to encourage writers who want to affect the heart.
These Latin abbreviations don’t impress, they confuse. Here’s what to write instead.
This simple but effective approach will unclog your synapses and get the ideas flowing again.
The Amazon Echo software offers an array of prompts, inspirational thoughts and linguistic course corrections for casual scribes and professional communicators alike.
Journalists use a powerful first sentence to pique interest. Use that same technique to engage your audience—internal or external—and keep them scrolling, all the way to your call to action.
Wrapping up our series on the influential writing gurus’ centennial, we delve into punctuation and the perplexing persistence of purple prose.
Consider these inventive tips to help tighten, brighten and enlighten whatever prose is under your nose.
Replace those weak, wimpy words with terms that imply exclusivity, scarcity and safety.
