Now's a good time — if you have the bandwidth — to touch base about a pain point that's evidently bothering many white-collar workers: office jargon. The business buzzwords (or corporate cliches, if ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Laura Brown writes about business communication. “I find it frustrating to be somewhat trapped by a long-standing and robustly ...

I remember being overwhelmed at all the unfamiliar things I had to learn as a newbie businessperson. There were so many procedures to keep track of, and people and departments to memorize! Every day I ...

The M EV1 is, perhaps, the exception that proves the rule, in the sense that by not conforming the existing pattern it helps clarify the pattern that otherwise exists. Photo: Richard Butler The very ...

It is no secret that the sensitive grammarian leads a deeply troubled life. Each daily excursion brings a new threat: a misplaced apostrophe here; a dangling modifier there; an advertisement extolling ...

This week, during a panel that I moderated for the release of Quality Counts 2009, Kris Gutierrez, a professor of social research methodology at the University of California at Los Angeles, said the ...

The English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools. EJ presents information on the teaching of writing and reading, ...