Keeping in Style: Why You Need a Style Guide for Your Company
Why you need one A new employee was asked to write to a longtime, highly valued client. She wrote, “Hey Bob, when are we gonna do a meet?”...
Invest In Yourself By Honing Your Writing Skills
The field of coaching C-Suite-level executives with their writing has mushroomed in recent years. That is because they understand how...
How to Boost Your Writing: Kill the Passive Voice
Passive voice gets a bad rap. And for good reason. In business writing, at least, it usually translates into a deadened tone that keeps...
Oxford Comma
Who knew that commas had names? Take the Oxford comma, for example. It’s a swanky term for a serial comma, that is, the use of two commas...
White Space: Writers Can't Live Without It
We writers don’t get enough respect. At least that’s what I thought when I wrote articles for newspapers and periodicals. The editors...
Tighten and Trim Your Business Writing
Once you complete a business writing task, you probably feel proud and even a little in love with how well it reads. But what if you went...
Hit the Right Tone in Your Business Writing
It's pretty easy to take visual cues from an audience when you stand before them to speak, but how about when you prepare written words...
Can You Find Your Way Out of Wordiness? Five Top Tips
Wordiness—style problems that lead to overstuffing your writing—can make readers turn from digesting to skimming, negating all your hard...
Job Ad Jargon: Where Do You Stand?
Jargon jars, especially in writing to clients, who either don't get the terms or repel at the sight of some of your techie or...
Let Your Mind Wander
How often have you been told to focus, from childhood to today? Sure, it can take a focus of steel to complete some business tasks,...
