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On waking up, your bleary eyes note that your phone’s alarm presents two options: “Snooze” and “OK.” Both buttons are the s...

Affect and effect are easy to mix up. Here’s the short version of how to use affect vs. effect. Affect is usually a verb...

Giving someone a lot of work to do, taking on a new responsibility, asking for leeway, requesting a favor, disagreeing with...

Engineers look at the world differently from non-engineers. They are usually extremely logical, pragmatic, and direct, whil...

The simple future is a verb tense that’s used to talk about things that haven’t happened yet. This year, Jen will rea...

You’re having an average morning at the office, when suddenly word ripples out from the corner suite: the boss is going to ...

The stereotype of gamers as abysmal communicators is familiar. It’s easy to picture an anti-social type sitting alone in h...

About three years ago, I decided to take a huge leap of faith. I sold almost everything I owned, packed my Toyota Sienna fr...

By Anne Wayman Recently a reader of my writing blog asked the following (edited for clarity): What’s your opinion about u...

Guest post by Matt Banner It doesn’t matter if you’re a New York Times bestselling author or a blogger from Kansas, every...