Have you ever asked yourself why some writing feels very clear and easy to understand, while other writing feels confusing? ...

Writers choose and build different types of sentences carefully. There are three main types of sentence structure - simple close simple sentenceA sentence containing one clause made up of a subject ...

Your writing feels flat when rhythm is missing. Learn five sentence music techniques that make business writing engaging, trustworthy and impossible to put down.

The thinking seemed to be that the more fancy words and complex sentence structures they could shoehorn into an essay, the greater their likelihood of getting an A. Much of my job consisted of ...

In the progressive campus lab school I attended until sixth grade, my friends and I wrote poetry, celebrated the passage of Title IX, and did “new” math. The boys sewed and cooked in home economics, ...

When you’re writing for work, it can be tempting to rely on industry jargon or big words to puff up your ideas. But overblown language doesn’t make you sound smart, and it can be off-putting to ...

I was talking to my friend Sarah the other day, and she pointed something out that has been on my mind for a while. She launched her start-up a few years ago, and while it was a tight team for the ...

Get straight to the point. Readers should know the most important information on the page after reading the first two sentences. Users don’t want to sift through too much information, especially if it ...