For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

Most of us don’t need a scientist to tell us that the state of much business writing is often downright awful. Anyone who has spent any time in the business world has been confronted with impenetrable ...

Written communication is as important to business as oral communication; but, for some reason, it's often underrated. Sales professionals send an average of 36.2 emails per day and spend 31% of their ...

All advice is suspect. I'm not suggesting you break all the so-called rules of creativity you've collected. Only that every tip can be counteracted with its opposite. And some advice is just plain bad ...