Earlier this fall a headline in The Atlantic caught my eye. “The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing,” it said. Promising enough on its own, but there was also a subhead: “A new movement strives ...

This week I'm going full-bore on long phrases that can so easily be shorter. I hope going full-bore doesn't make the topic a complete bore. I've been out of college for decades now, but I still have ...

Read the headlines. This morning you have a job, this afternoon you don’t. A strong resumé in today’s job market should be concise, tailored, and results-driven while being optimized for both human ...

If you’re like most people, the amount of time you spend in teleconferences has skyrocketed over the past months. So too has the amount of time you spend writing emails. Sales pitches. Proposals.

Favoring active sentences over passive ones is probably the most repeated advice regarding clarity and concision. An active sentence is one where the subject is the source of the action. Conversely, a ...

Then take a lesson from Mohammad Ali and Lyndon Johnson. They use a technique that author Roy Peter Clark calls the “one-two punch” to make writing stickier–to catch readers’ attention and stays in ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You’re working busily on copy for your company’s website, fully aware of how important it is, but for some reason, the process is going ...

Some companies want you to have a good experience and others couldn't care less, but either way you're bound to have a bad experience now and again. Here's how to approach the problem calmly and write ...