Whether you're conducting a yearly performance evaluation or a minor productivity checkup, the words you use make a large difference in the quality and message of a review. The right wording ensures ...

In honor of Mark Twain's birthday, here's a piece of writing advice from a letter he wrote to a student named D.W. Bowser: "I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief ...

Have you ever wondered why some writing feels vivid and engaging while other texts seem flat and lifeless? The secret often lies in the strategic use of descriptive words, specifically, knowing when ...

When you’re writing, adjectives give you the most flexibility to create a vivid picture. It’s also easy to slip into a cliche series of mundane, familiar adjectives. Describing Words helps inspire you ...

This is one of 10 essays I offer as we close 2021 that I hope will help broadcast journalists tell stronger stories in the year ahead. Mark Twain offered some writing advice about adjectives: ...

A report of a review of NAPLAN released in recent days cited the writing part of the test to be the most problematic. The report noted the NAPLAN […] has led to formulaic writing in students’ ...

Is there something unforgivably, infuriatingly obfuscatory about the unrestrained use of adjectives and adverbs? Many celebrated stylists think so. Crime writer Elmore Leonard, who died last week, ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Adjectives have always been out there, mobs of them pressing on the outside walls, their faces against the ...