Category Archives: Real World Writing
Why You Should Read Your Writing Out Loud
Take a look at some of the great articles on Fast Company. [...]
How To Say You’re Sorry
Sometimes apologies in business are expressions of sympathy – and sometimes they are admissions of guilt. Sometimes apologies are [...]
How To Write For The Internet
People read online content differently than other types of content. Research has shown that people skim in a kind of “F” shape [...]
How to Incorporate Visuals Into Your Report
As useful and necessary as graphics are, it is not enough to just plop them into a document. Here is how you incorporate a graphic into yo [...]
Warby Parker: Building A Brand From The Annual Report
According to Inc.com, the purpose of an annual report is to assess the business’s yearly operations, present its view of the upcoming [...]
Interview Follow-Up Messages: Best Practices
Have you ever made a mistake in a job interview? Said something you wish you could take back? It happens all the time, but according to [...]
Pain Letters, Human-Voiced Resumes and Dragon-Slayer Stories
Have you mastered the traditional application letter and resume? Want to take your job application messages to the next level? Liz Ryan, C [...]
The Science Behind How Fonts Make You Feel
Want to have an impact with your resumes, reports and websites? Make the best font choices. This article breaks it all down, from the [...]
Twitter Gives It To Us Straight (Sort of)
In October 2015, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, announced layoffs of over 300 people. He says that he’s going to “ [...]
The Curse of Knowledge
Many sensible strategies fail to drive action because executives formulate them in sweeping, general language. –The Curse of Knowledge [...]
Four Ways to Write a Sentence
Did you know there were only four basic sentence styles in English? They are the Simple, the Compound, the Complex and the Compound/Comple [...]