What do Kobe Bryant and Paul McCartney have in common? They practice their respective crafts to improve. Writers should do so, too. Try these tactics to keep your writing skills sharp.
PR pros and ad execs have long looked to David Ogilvy as a guide. His well-known approach to copywriting is considered imaginative and unorthodox. Here’s a spin on his 10 tips for writing.
The guidelines for novelists and screenwriters apply to anyone who strings words together to tell a story, inform readers or engage an audience—and keep your editor at bay.
Online writing delivers ‘gifts’ all year long, but the holiday season is an ideal time to look at the special offerings an editor finds glistening within blocks of text.
Teachers’ ‘dead words’ project seeks to vanquish dull diction. Some writers fume: What’s so bad about ‘said’?
Learn writing mechanics, grammar rules, word histories and more from these useful sites. One even offers rhymes, antonyms and ‘sentences with’ options.
Here are editing tips every writer can use to de-gunk copy, essays, even emails.
Candidates with sharp writing skills could land a position with NewsCred, Ikea, Ketchum or Fisher-Price.
With the rise of content marketing, you can easily turn your nose for news to brand journalism.
With the rise of content marketing, you can easily turn your nose for news to brand journalism.
One candidate will have the opportunity to work for Reddit, the front page of the Internet.
There are five stages to putting together a piece of text. Are you shortchanging—or completely neglecting—this essential phase?
From identifying a hot topic to researching and explaining it to distributing your finished product, these online tools can save you time and spare you headaches.
From identifying a hot topic to researching and explaining it to distributing your finished product, these online tools can save you time and spare you headaches.
One outstanding candidate could get the opportunity to work with the Ragan Communications team with this week’s featured listing.
