Writing & Editing

These online (and on-leash) assistants can help you gather and develop ideas, create workable first drafts and hone your writing projects.

In business writing, it’s important to maintain strict guidelines. Of late, ‘they’ has re-emerged as a go-to singular pronoun in certain cases. Should marketing copy follow suit? Here’s an answer.

Perks of swapping a laptop for pen and paper include thinking more creatively and remembering information more clearly. When did you last write by hand?

Communicators who procrastinate writing requested copy or those who are coming up empty when seeking ideas for blog posts can turn things around with this infographic guide.

Distractions take the form of Twitter hashtags, caffeine cravings, text exchanges—and myriad other demons. Here’s how to vanquish them and get into a steady work rhythm.

From fervent denunciations to a tacit ‘What took you so long?’ the online cadre of editors and PR pros are chiming in on the shift, which is in effect today, as the 2016 Stylebook publishes.

The advent of texting is turning communications more casual, but PR and marketing pros should make sure business emails are professional and grammatically correct.

Who needs business cards? These physical conditions, personality quirks and persistent habits say it all. You transform words into stories just as bees turn pollen into honey.

Corporate communications often contain jargon and needlessly complex verbs. One writer shows how silly the term can sound.

Great amusement, amusing anecdotes, and a little something from Dr. Seuss.

Extraneous words and phrases hide within the meaningful prose, like so much deadwood begging to be pruned.

Most of the time, sticking the the accepting guidelines for grammar, usage and punctuation is the way to go, but very occasionally, it’s OK to toss the rulebook.

See if you can relate to these sentences, penned by the novel’s protagonist as she struggled to perfect her storytelling skills.

In response to recent disparaging of linguists and their fervent devotion to getting things right, the author graciously offers a handful of tips to help you, dear reader, to avoid screwing up.

Experts preach the benefits of ‘snackable’ content, but new research indicates that, even in an age of smartphones and dwindling attention spans, readers will make time for longer articles.