Emails are key to communication in the office. Yet, as a rule, they are badly written. So by cons...
Today is March 4 and you know what that means. It’s National Grammar Day! Here are ten ways...
Face it every writer has days when they sit down to write and the words just don’t flow onto the ...
William Lee and Rick Patrick are the co-creators of “Talkingstick,” a performance series that is ...
First, you need to identify your audience. There are several methods to identify your audience, s...
First, you need to identify your audience. There are several methods to identify your audience, ...
Here are six rules of thumb that will help you write a sales message that actually helps you mov...
The value of this Business Plan process is the thinking that it forces you to do about your busin...
The other day, I found myself thinking about all the ways we use words. Scratch “all!”...
As communicators, we’re responsible for writing clear, simple & memorable messages. But...
Dick Weiss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch does some neat stuff on writing in his Weiss on Writin...
3. Editors can’t read your mind, and neither can your readers. Often writers are so immersed in ...
I can talk for hours on the subject, but if asked for the most effective ways to get online read...
Writing good is a big deal these days. A bigger deal then math, according to my friends and I, bu...
Refined Wisdom: Sometimes editors get bad design because they keep asking for something different...
True confession: I am a bit of word geek. My husband and I love a good game of Scrabble. I check ...
Sorry, Emerson, being consistent is not the hobgoblin of small minds. Of course, if I have it rig...
One of the most debated questions in all of journalism is how to handle direct quotations. Journa...
This is a bibliography of writing books I recommend in my seminars: ...
This is a bibliography of writing books I recommend in my seminars. You may order most of these b...
