Emails are key to communication in the office. Yet, as a rule, they are badly written. So by cons...
Face it every writer has days when they sit down to write and the words just don’t flow onto the ...
First, you need to identify your audience. There are several methods to identify your audience, s...
Corporate communicators would do well to read and heed this advice from a Jan. 11, 2013 article i...
If your blog is boring, and there is another blog with similar content and enjoyable delivery, y...
One hour is a short period of time, but within it you can prepare a great article of about 500 w...
Here are five suggestions to help you build your writing habit. (And, for even more help, here ar...
When you get right down to the nitty-gritty, only two things really count when striving for the p...
One of the dangers of writing is that we can fall in love with our words. Even the wrong words. A...
Today is March 4 and you know what that means. It’s National Grammar Day! Here are ten ways...
One of my writing coaching clients sent me a link to a blog post about exclamation points. I was ...
When you try to be persuasive in writing or speaking, you probably spend a lot of time crafting t...
Reading from a screen isn’t the same as reading from a piece of paper. I say this at the risk of ...
My eleventh rule to write by is the $64,000 Word Theory. Many people choose longer, more complex ...
My next rule to write by is the Misplaced Passion Theory. When people are passionate about a subj...
Let’s talk links. That’s right, web links. Because most of the links we see on intranets and empl...
People have a love/hate relationship with Twitter – it’s either the best thing since sliced bread...
This is one we all can fall prey to: The Words Make Bad Lovers Theory. If you fall in love with a...
Here it is: The Communications is Like Manufacturing Theory. Instead of the old “push” model—maki...
My seventh rule to write by is The Gruel Theory. When writing a document that will be reviewed by...