Don’t say “following” when you mean “after”.

Nouns. Verbs. Adjectives. Pronouns. Only grammar geeks need to care about them, right? Wrong.

Be sure to include a couple of touchy-feely corporate clichés in there.

Word's readability score is a great place to start when you want to improve your writing.

Exciting. It’s the lazy marketer’s favourite word.

If you’re really stuck for inspiration, simply list various groups of people.

Don’t know the difference between “anticipate” and “expect”?

Don’t “focus your efforts on” something. Just do it!

Not so long ago, change was something we could all believe in.

But I’m not holding it against these fun-loving nice guys.

Were these headlines yours?

As many a writer will tell you, words and music are very similar. Here’s what learning the flute has taught me about being a writer.

And ever noticed that the less status a writer has in a corporation, the more likely they are to cling to clunkiness?

So you think English is the international language of business, do you?

A reader recently sent me a wonderful piece of corporate babble.

As with “socialise”, literate people talk of things escalating, but not of people “escalating things”.

Like many professional writers, Lewis doesn’t find writing particularly easy.

How do you stop other people turning your clear, crisp prose into turgid, buzzword-ridden nonsense?

Does your process allow you to rein in overenthusiastic editors?

I've been working with several teams of economists lately and it's got me wondering where they learn to write like that.