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 ...

Cognitive overload can be alarming. Too much information can be difficult to process and lead to an unsatisfying experience, whether it is reading an academic paper or an email. The more verbiage you ...

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.

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 ...

Then take a lesson from Mohammad Ali and Lyndon Johnson. They use a technique that author Roy Peter Clark calls the “one-two punch” to make writing stickier–to catch readers’ attention and stays in ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You’re working busily on copy for your company’s website, fully aware of how important it is, but for some reason, the process is going ...