Want your writing to sound smarter? Get rid of pointless, long words!
The worst thing about reading research articles is the awful writing. Every now and then, an exception pops up: a clear, short article made up…
Classic writing tip: let strong nouns and verbs do the work
Strunk & White’s classic writing guide, The Elements of Style, has been derided recently by Steven Pinker. But one of Strunk & White’s rules stands…
Who we help: meet Rakesh and Alice
In addition to traditional speech pathology services for people with communication impairments, we work with professionals, business owners and others who need to improve their…
25 rules of effective writing from a plain English legend; and my nine all-time favourites
My regular readers know I’m a big fan of plain English and Rudolf Flesch. One of my favourite writing books is Dr Flesch’s “How to write,…
Apologies to Mrs Dixon: taking notes by hand is more effective than by laptop
This surprises some people, but, when I was in grade 1, I was – just a tiny bit – precocious. I also had terrible handwriting,…