Writing well isn’t easy. In fact, it’s “hard work,” said William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. “A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come ...
I was talking to my friend Sarah the other day, and she pointed something out that has been on my mind for a while. She launched her start-up a few years ago, and while it was a tight team for the ...
Nothing is worse than bad writing. It’s recognizable within the first few sentences – either consciously or subconsciously. Bad writing is full of “noise”; it contains complicated words and ideas, and ...
Have you ever read AI-written content and thought, “How can I make this sound more natural and comfortable for people?” Many writers, students, and professionals use AI tools today, but everyone wants ...
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 ...
I’m Erik Huberman, and I have a simple rule for email: if you wouldn’t say it out loud, don’t write it that way. Email is a conversation, not a lecture. Too many people write like they’re turning in ...