Chris Weller (photo, left) reports on the topic with an assist from the ideas of Steven Pinker, author of The Sense of Style...

"You’re looking at an e-mail you just wrote, and you’re not sure whether you have the right word: Do you want affect or effect?..

"As with everything else we do today, technology has come up with a way to make our writing lives easier...

"Business writing used to be simply about communicating — getting information across to others," writes Michael Theriault...

Susan Adams presents the 8 keys at Forbes...

Helen Coster (photo, left) presents "10 Tips for Better Business Writing...

"Back when I was a journalist," writes Victor Lipman (photo, left), "an old editor of mine had a great saying he used to tell his writers: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long letter...

"I asked everyone around me, people who’d been working longer than I had, 'Why do we write this way?..

"A friend of mine received an invitation to interview at a company...

"As writers, editors, and PR professionals, we are keenly aware of having to fight for readers’ attention," declares Laura Hale Brockway (photo, left)...