Writing Skills

Are there specific grammatical errors that plague writers more often than others? That’s a question a pair of researchers wanted to answer, so they evaluated the writing in over...

When writers fail to think critically about their writing projects, documents can easily fall flat as tepid and unpersuasive, generating little to no impact on the reader.  Worse, ineffective writing might leave readers thinking that writers don't know what they’re talking about...

Many writers don’t take much time to plan; in fact, many simply begin writing, believing that their first draft will become their final draft with just a little “cleaning up” and reorganization.

Communication skills are vital to effective company branding. We discussed this idea in our white paper, "Beef up your communication skills to strengthen your business brand." By cultivating a specific impression...

Building a clear and effective business brand is critical in today's world. People are bombarded by a continuous stream of information that saps attention and crowds out any individual communication with ceaseless noise.

In our day to day work, we can forget that customers and clients don’t necessarily see what we do. In other words, they can’t come and sit with you while you work.

Science writing is getting worse, according to science. In 2017, Swedish researchers reviewed over 700,000 English-language biomedical abstracts published between 1881 and 2015 to understand how scientific and medical writing has changed over time.

Believe it or not, bad writing is costing your organization big time. A former Senior VP at Forrester Research and best-selling author, Josh Bernoff, studied the cost impacts of bad business writing.

In the business world, writing has a job to do. You don’t write just for the pleasure of it. You write to bring about change in the reader. What that “something” is can vary.

Believe it or not, bad writing is costing your organization big time. A former Senior VP at Forrester Research and best-selling author, Josh Bernoff, studied the cost impacts of poor writing skills in business.