Cognitive overload can be alarming. Too much information can be difficult to process and lead to an unsatisfying experience, whether it is reading an academic paper or an email. The more verbiage you ...

It's a dilemma that most journalists face at one time or another: too much information, too little space. Being concise without giving readers only bare-bones news coverage is important for reporters ...

Earlier this fall a headline in The Atlantic caught my eye. “The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing,” it said. Promising enough on its own, but there was also a subhead: “A new movement strives ...

In one of my recent writing training sessions, a participant bemoaned the amount of back-and-forth correspondence caused by her unclear emails. She worked at a major utility and was responsible for ...