Ever seen TL;DR on an article or in a comment and wondered what it means? I’m generally opposed to acronyms and abbreviations, but this made me laugh when I looked it up. It means too long, didn’t read. It’s what I wanted to say to my dad last week...
I say it’s fake. In an article for The Daily Beast, author Josh Bernoff wrote, “the fuzzy, terrible writing we slog through every day at work” costs American businesses nearly $400 billion every year. He found that people in business spend 6 per cent...
Last week Kylie Miller and I were teaching our new Get It Write program with a team. We start by talking about the importance of being human in our writing. One participant challenged us on this notion. He said simple, clear, plain English is fine when communicating...
