I was talking to my friend Sarah the other day, and she pointed something out that has been on my mind for a while. She launched her start-up a few years ago, and while it was a tight team for the ...

At one time or another, most students feel antsy going into a big test. But how students interpret those sweaty palms and racing pulse can make or break their performance. A new study in the ...

Writing well isn’t easy. In fact, it’s “hard work,” said William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. “A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come ...

Nothing is worse than bad writing. It’s recognizable within the first few sentences – either consciously or subconsciously. Bad writing is full of “noise”; it contains complicated words and ideas, and ...

When SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt championed “plain English” writing in the 1990s, he argued that simpler financial disclosures would help investors make more informed decisions. Since then, we’ve also ...