From 10-word social media posts to 100-word emails to 1,000-word blogs, sloppy writing reflects a disorganized mind. Any warning signs of disorganization will send prospective clients running — and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Mark Pasetsky From ...

The thinking seemed to be that the more fancy words and complex sentence structures they could shoehorn into an essay, the greater their likelihood of getting an A. Much of my job consisted of ...