Category Archives: Best Writing Tips
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 [...]
How To Write With Flair
Five Ways to Write with Flair By Heather Holleman, Ph.D. Most of us will have thousands of occasions for writing in the next year: emails, t [...]
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 [...]
The Irresistible Power of Storytelling
People think it’s all about sex or humor or animals, but what we’ve found is that the underbelly of a great commercial is whethe [...]
5 Things Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Writing Emails
Just before the release of Apple’s first IPad, James Murdoch of NewsCorp and Steve Jobs exchanged a series of emails negotiating an [...]
How to Write a List
Lists in professional and online writing help us organize our thoughts, display the hierarchy of our information, and increase the readabili [...]
Love Your Emails
We don’t often feel love when we open our in-boxes. William Arruda tells us how to write emails that people will look forward to in [...]
Some Top Sources For Business News
Looking for places to find business and tech news? Need sources for your Professional Reading Blog assignment? Want to beef up your know [...]