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...