Far from being cold or brusque, clarity of language shows confidence in your message and helps others align with your vision.

(Editor’s note: “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times” is the fourth in a series of writing and language books written by Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown, beginning ...

Whether you identify as one or not, everyone is a writer. Between social networks, dating profiles, blogs, and the day-to-day tasks of most jobs, writing is an essential skill. In How to Write Short, ...

In one of my recent writing training sessions, a participant bemoaned the amount of back-and-forth correspondence caused by her unclear emails. She worked at a major utility and was responsible for ...

When you speak and write, there is no law that says you have to use big words. Short words are as good as long ones, and short, old words — like sun and grass and home — are best of all. A lot of ...