Teaching Business Communication

“The employee believed their safety could not be guaranteed.”

“The employee believed their safety could not be guaranteed.”

Business emails are a pillar of modern communication. On any given day, the average office worker receives over 80 emails.

This post is a response to comments from readers about my use of “insure” in Editors insure content matches audience readiness for it. I’m using this as a teaching moment for my technical editing students so it might be too long for others. Skip ahead if you just want to get to shibboleths or white…

I led a class for a group of writers who respond to citizen complaints about airplane noise. The writers cannot make the planes quieter, and they can’t make them go away. What can they do? They can respond in ways…

It can be difficult to find business themed stock images that are not cheesy.

It can be difficult to find business themed stock images that are not cheesy.

I just finished reading another excellent mystery by Louise Penny: The Beautiful Mystery. Penny’s series of Inspector Gamache mysteries, which take place in Québec, gets better and better with each volume. I’m always looking forward to the next one. This…

The other day I participated in an online chat about cats being allowed to roam free in our neighborhood. Opinions for and against piled up minute by minute, with some people expressing strong views. Reading the comments, I noticed this…