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Arika Okrent’s 17 syllables captured the hearts of the judges. Find out what she wrote.

Writing guides advise caution when deploying parentheses. Should you strike them from your copy altogether?

Consider giving up a nasty habit—such as using lazy corporate verbs or writing tepid subject lines.

Who said creating content your readers will love has to be hard? This recipe makes it a cakewalk.

The author looks at her spam folder—and her inbox—to identify and chuckle at some real stinkers. Come along for deride!

Readers, unite—and enjoy these quotes about your exalted pastime.

Writers, communicators, friends, Romans, countrymen, gather around as well as say ‘dirigible’—and other delightful words.

After the author shared 50 commonly misspelled words, readers weighed in with the words—or word pairs—that trouble them.

Four ideas writers can follow to help ensure their copy sounds like it’s written for humans and not for a board of directors.

Ever corrected the grammar in a story you read to your kids? To how many word-a-day emails do you subscribe? Uh-oh, you might be a word nerd. (Join the club.)

Your blog doesn’t elicit any comments? Employees don’t read your newsletter? Take a cue from fiction writers to better engage readers.