Mark Twain once noted that “to get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.” I find it hard to believe the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn considered writing a struggle ...

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Any management consultant will tell you that communication skills are vital to success in business. Business is fundamentally about getting other people to do things -- getting employees to be ...

Today is Thursday, so this post is on communication skills. Clear, crisp writing is an important communication skill. Successful people are able to get across their ideas in an easily readable way.

It doesn’t open up the tapestry of human experience — it reads like it was written by a shut-in with Wi-Fi and a thesaurus.

We’re professors who try to write well. We also try to help our students and colleagues write well. But, really, why bother? Among the standard answers: Because businesses want good writers. Because ...

The college experience teaches you many skills, from how to take notes to pulling off all nighters to surviving on a diet of takeout and microwave noodles. One set of skills, though, that our ...

My organization decided a few weeks back that we needed to hire a new professional staff person. We had close to 500 applicants. Inasmuch as the task was to help us communicate information related to ...

Books are getting longer. Some surveys have suggested that the word count for novels has doubled since the 1900s. Case in point, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy maxes out at 455,125 words, while "A ...