“I find it frustrating to be somewhat trapped by a long-standing and robustly implemented ‘institutional writing voice.’ This enforced company style is overly wordy, full of run-on sentence structures ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Renae Gregoire covers content marketing and great content experiences. Clear writing clearly isn’t jargon; it’s glorious writing.

What is jargon, anyway? In a literal sense, jargon is simply a word or phrase that requires specialized knowledge for the reader to understand. For our purposes — which include helping people at ...

Marketing and communications professionals know how to write well. However, sometimes you struggle to get your firm's executives to recognize the power of good writing. You edit their text, but the ...

Whenever I compile my list of weekly links, I usually end up with more articles from mainstream news sources than I do from science blogs. When I do link to blogs, I tend to go with those written by ...

In content marketing and in journalism, the word jargon has come to be used mostly as an insult. It's a label that people put on unfamiliar language they dismiss as gibberish. Jargon has another ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Frustration. Angst. Embarrassment. Anxiety. Fear. Insecurity. I felt all those emotions every time I had to write an email, proposal, ...

Writing is not an art suddenly discovered. It's a craft gradually developed. Writing–both creative and critical– is formulaic, the way math is. If this sounds like an awkward analogy, remember that ...