The Verbal Gardener
Being an editor or writer is like being a gardener of words. I weed sentences, cultivate paragraphs, and landscape pages. That’s why I think it’s easier to [...]
Get the Job Part 3: The References, Samples, and Extras
In the first articles of this series, we talked about the two most important documents in applying for a job: the résumé and the cover letter. But [...]
Get the Job Part 2: The Compelling Cover Letter
We recently posted job ads for open positions, and each ad brought in more than 200 applicants. That is a lot of résumés for a small business [...]
Get the Job Part 1: The Intriguing Résumé
My first résumé out of college had a decorative wheat stalk on it. And yes, “Why?” is the correct response to that. My twenty-one-year-old self liked the [...]
It’s Time to KonMari Your Document Folders
You’ve figured out the joy of folding your socks the Marie Kondo way. So now it’s time to pause and reflect on your current state of digital [...]
Readability Part 5: The Wheels on the Bus
Have you already finished the sentence from the song? ...round and round, round and round, round and round. Believe it or not, every article in my series [...]
Readability Part 4: In Which There Are Numbers
In the readability series so far, we’ve explored the differences between physical and conceptual readability, the importance of audience and context, and the value of making good [...]
Readability Part 3: Assume Rightly
Welcome to the third article in our series on readability, which deals in assumptions. Assumptions are an oft maligned—but nonetheless useful and necessary—part of making writing more [...]