A guide for copywriters, UX writers, and anyone else writing for the web or a product This article is a companion to The secret to giving good writing feedback: How to work with writers to make sure your product and web copy is the absolute best it can be. There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting. –Poet Robert Graves Writing is … Continue reading The secret to receiving writing feedback
How to work with writers to make sure your product and web copy is the absolute best it can be This article is a companion to The secret to receiving writing feedback: A guide for copywriters, UX writers, and anyone else writing for the web. For writers If you’re a copywriter, UX writer, or anyone else writing for the web or a product, you can … Continue reading The secret to giving good writing feedback
If you’re a writer who partners with designers, product managers, marketers, engineers or other people to write for the web, software, or apps, you might sometimes wonder how to raise visibility for your work. In many companies, especially tech, writing teams are small, if there are teams at all. Often there’s only one writer, juggling the work of UX writing, marketing copy, content marketing, technical … Continue reading How 1-minute writing tips can boost your writing team’s visibility and impact
There are many different approaches to teaching and learning. Some people believe we each have different learning strengths, that some of us learn better by listening than by reading, or by observing rather than listening. Others claim that’s not true, that we all learn by doing. The ways we learn I’m not an expert in education, though I was a corporate trainer and also taught … Continue reading To get better at anything, you need to do the thing
If we have an in-house writer, why does it even matter if I can write well? There’s an old saying, Sloppy language is a sign of a sloppy mind. The saying has been attributed to a whole variety of people, but the underlying tenet is universal: writing helps you sort through your thoughts and ideas in a coherent way. Writing and critical thinking are intricately … Continue reading How clear writing helps your critical thinking skills
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