Posting Date: April 29, 2003

Take the Fat Out of Your Writing (Harvard Business School) -- "Is your writing wobbly? Next time you take finger to word processor, think clarity, relevance, sincerity, concision and transparency." (Comments: Thanks Sharad Singh.)

Reader Comments...

Write tight? I had to look it up, and sure enough, it's correct. Tight can be used as an adverb in place of tightly. I didn't know that.

Posted by: Ralph on April 29, 2003 07:33 AM

I like her point about writing with sincerity. I'm so tired of marketing speak. It just screams "we don't care if you have to slog through this, it sounds good to us."

Posted by: Lydia on April 29, 2003 07:38 PM

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