Once upon a time, I worked for a newspaper. And that newspaper was looking for ways to cut costs, which meant a combination of layoffs, buyouts and mandatory unpaid time off. In order to create the ...

Countless books have been written on the various ways to edit. Today’s column describes one key step in whatever procedure you may choose: edit to weed useless words. As you review your first draft, ...

It’s a question that has hounded us all: What are the consequences of erudite vernacular used irrespective of necessity? OK, not really. That’s the ironic title of an academic paper published in 2005 ...