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 ...

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.

Cognitive overload can be alarming. Too much information can be difficult to process and lead to an unsatisfying experience, whether it is reading an academic paper or an email. The more verbiage you ...

Eliminating wordiness is a crucial part of revising prose. Repetitive sentences, colorless word choices, and dead-weight, “filler” phrases can bore your readers so much that they may simply tune out ...

"Shoot him off an email" is so familiar in office dialogue that we may do just that -- write a quick email without much thought to content, grammar, format and conciseness. Don't be tempted to treat ...

In one of my recent writing training sessions, a participant bemoaned the amount of back-and-forth correspondence caused by her unclear emails. She worked at a major utility and was responsible for ...

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 ...

Writing tasks for our to-do lists, we often err in one of two directions: either your tasks are too scarce on details or they're chock-full of way too much information. Blogger Ethan Schoonover ...