Research shows that unclear language can undermine trust in your message. Rather than focusing on phrasing, strive to make a clear and original point, says author Joel Schwartzberg. Many pieces of ...

Everybody hates it. But everybody uses it. We’re talking about the dreaded office jargon, that peculiar corporate language consisting of cliches that manage to say nothing about everything. It’s time ...

What is jargon, anyway? In a literal sense, jargon is simply a word or phrase that requires specialized knowledge for the reader to understand. For our purposes — which include helping people at ...