Writing & Editing

These unnecessary sentence additions can weigh down your copy. Eliminate them to make your sentences clear and concise.

The sentences that readers crave usually aren’t penned with ease: The career of a wordsmith requires hard work. Consider these truths.

Perfection doesn’t magically flow onto paper or screen. Go ahead, and stink up the joint with your shoddy prose. You can—and should—fix it later, but the freedom to fail can be liberating.

You might not realize it, but if you limit colleagues’ text to ‘safe’ language, they’ll default to corporate lingo, resulting in banal, stilted emails, presentations and promos. Buck that trend.

With pen and paper or at the keyboard, a daily burst of putting your thoughts into words can be transformative.

Turkey and all the trimmings. Grinches and Scrooges. Should wordsmiths dump these tired phrases now—before we start writing seasonal copy?

Instead of running for the hills the next time you’re stumped on proper grammar, consider these approaches.

The mix of the question mark and exclamation point is often used in informal writing. What do you think of these additions?

The term has been in existence for roughly a decade, but the organization reported spikes in its use after UK’s EU referendum and the U.S. presidential election.

Distilling thoughts into words and building sentences and paragraphs—for even a few minutes a day—does more than just create text blocks. It also eases your mind and frees up your thinking.

Hemingway, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Orwell—even a couple of guys named Strunk & White—offer insights about keeping text lively and informative.

PR pros should know the basics of writing about the 2016 campaign. To ensure you don’t flub a political post on your company’s blog today, follow these tips.

If you’re hoping to make a bookworm or writing professional happy this holiday season, let this list of present suggestions be your guide.