Have you ever asked yourself why some writing feels very clear and easy to understand, while other writing feels confusing? Many people face this situation in daily life. Sometimes we have good ideas ...

The thinking seemed to be that the more fancy words and complex sentence structures they could shoehorn into an essay, the greater their likelihood of getting an A. Much of my job consisted of ...

A simple sentence, also known as a main clause, shows one clear idea. It has one subject (what or who) and one verb (a doing word). Scott struggles through the snow. A compound sentence joins two ...

As we have seen, long and complicated sentences can make life very difficult for the average reader – Jefferson D Bates, Writing with Precision A few writers, particularly those who work for online ...

How do you hook people neurologically when you write or speak? My last post revealed that you have to turn on the brain’s reward circuit to engage people. That’s how you capture and keep people’s ...