Don’t say “following” when you mean “after”.
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Nouns. Verbs. Adjectives. Pronouns. Only grammar geeks need to care about them, right? Wrong.
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Be sure to include a couple of touchy-feely corporate clichés in there.
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Word's readability score is a great place to start when you want to improve your writing.
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Exciting. It’s the lazy marketer’s favourite word.
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If you’re really stuck for inspiration, simply list various groups of people.
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Don’t know the difference between “anticipate” and “expect”?
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Don’t “focus your efforts on” something. Just do it!
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Not so long ago, change was something we could all believe in.
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But I’m not holding it against these fun-loving nice guys.
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Were these headlines yours?
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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.
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And ever noticed that the less status a writer has in a corporation, the more likely they are to cling to clunkiness?
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So you think English is the international language of business, do you?
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A reader recently sent me a wonderful piece of corporate babble.
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As with “socialise”, literate people talk of things escalating, but not of people “escalating things”.
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Like many professional writers, Lewis doesn’t find writing particularly easy.
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How do you stop other people turning your clear, crisp prose into turgid, buzzword-ridden nonsense?
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Does your process allow you to rein in overenthusiastic editors?
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I've been working with several teams of economists lately and it's got me wondering where they learn to write like that.
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