Earlier this fall a headline in The Atlantic caught my eye. “The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing,” it said. Promising enough on its own, but there was also a subhead: “A new movement strives ...

If you’re like most people, the amount of time you spend in teleconferences has skyrocketed over the past months. So too has the amount of time you spend writing emails. Sales pitches. Proposals.

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This week I'm going full-bore on long phrases that can so easily be shorter. I hope going full-bore doesn't make the topic a complete bore. I've been out of college for decades now, but I still have ...

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It's a dilemma that most journalists face at one time or another: too much information, too little space. Being concise without giving readers only bare-bones news coverage is important for reporters ...