Write Less, Say More
When it comes to writing, the author says that shorter is better.
When it comes to writing, the author says that shorter is better.
Are your emails, presentations and other work documents a little lifeless? Who says we should equate being professional with being boring?
Sarcasm requires gestures, facial expressions, word inflections and all sorts of tiny nonverbal cues. Your recipient can’t see or hear any of these things in your email.
These are four words and phrases that are best left out of your written material.
If you regularly dash off sloppy, informal emails to colleagues in instances when serious messages are called for, your colleagues will notice and it can harm your reputation.
If you’re writing a document that you will need to print and hand out (report, memo, newsletter, etc.), consider using a serif font to make the material easier to read and digest for your readers.
The worst thing you can do to start a presentation is thank people. What they hear in those all-important first few seconds is not you being polite — it’s you being boring.
A copywriter is simply a writer – a writer stuck with a silly and needlessly confusing title.