Whether you are writing a brief, a research memorandum or a client report, what you write, and how you write it, communicates your ideas to your audience. Are your sentences wordy and rambling, or ...

A Hartford woman thought some perjured testimony had landed a friend in jail. So she wrote a carefully worded complaint to the criminal court in Hartford. “I aver,” the woman wrote in the final ...

Introduction Mostly, verbosity arises in our attempt to elaborate or paint a clear picture. Elaboration itself largely depends on the use of modifiers. Sometimes, we seem to be more mindful of the ...

The primary objective of communication is to express a thought NOT to impress an audience. Therefore, comprehension overrides sophistication in language use. While simplicity in language leads to ...

Word of the Day: Enhance your vocabulary with our Word of the Day series. In this series, we introduce a new word every day and explore its meaning, origin, and usage in the English language. You can ...

I have a correspondent I call Faxman who is a professor of accounting. He has the laudable desire to improve his M.B.A. students’ ability to write clear prose. This is a worthy endeavor, and I was ...