Business Writing Tips from a "Recovering Academic"
I had the pleasure of delivering a webinar on "How to Write in Layperson." (Thanks to Springboard Atlantic for hosting this event!)
The audience included researchers, entrepreneurs, industry liaison officers from Atlantic universities, and students. As a former professor, I felt very much at home among these folks, who formed a thoughtful, discerning group.
I also felt their frustration with the conventions and limitations of business communication.
In my previous life as a scholar, I spent y…
Hunting for the Philosopher's Stone of "objective" scientific language
Flash forward four or five hundred years, and today’s scientific community is still looking for a version of the Philosopher’s Stone. The hunt now is for an element to f…
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