Websites, books & other tools
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Book Ann for an in-house or association workshop Learn to increase engagement with step-by-step techniques for writing successful content marketing pieces. |
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NOT Your Father’s PR Writing workshop Learn to get the word out with media relations Get the word out: Learn to put your PR pieces among the 3% to 45% of those that actually get picked up. |
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Reach Readers Online web-writing workshop Overcome the obstacles of reading on the small screen Learn to write web content that engages your target audience at our mobile writing-for-the-web classes. |
Tools for fighting gibberish |
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This British organization has been “fighting for crystal-clear communication since 1979.” Find free guides, tips, news, awards, quotes and more. |
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Learn enough about complicated processes and procedures — from LASIK surgery to liposuction, from cloning to currency — to be able to describe them in conversational terms. |
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This site boasts an index of more than 10 million words in 942 dictionaries. Put your word in once, and OneLook will search them all. |
Why avoid jargon |
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Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists Scientific papers containing lots of specialized terminology are less likely to be cited by other researchers. |
Reach more readers with tight writing
Would your piece be twice as good if it were half as long? Yes, say readability experts.
So how long should your message be? Your paragraphs? Your sentences? Your words? What reading ease level should you hit?
Learn how to write clearer, more concise messages at our clear-writing course.
