In business, as in our personal lives, we write to be understood. We want the recipient — client, employee, partner or boss — to comprehend the message behind the email, memo, report or proposal.

Writing can be an albatross around the neck. Or it can be an adventure of great expectations leading to profitable ends. For Alex Z. Salinas, writing is a wild roller-coaster ride with its curvy ...

McKnight’s Editorial Director John O’Connor won the top honor for commentary writing in specialized US business journalism Friday when he was announced a 2023 Neal Award winner. Now in his 33rd year ...

After several years of teaching data analytics, I have come to an agreement that at the end of each academic semester, I will suffer through grading between 20 and 40 group reports. Each report is ...

On March 21, the monthly meeting of the Arts Consortium of Carver County (ACCC) showcased three local writers who competed in this year’s first Flash Fiction competition. Each writer was awarded with ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

Over the years that I have been an English teacher, there has been a steady decline in students’ writing skills. Every time I assign a major piece of writing, one that is multiple pages in length, I ...