Save the Semicolon

Putting too much information in a sentence gets across less information. Sentence with A and B gets across A and B. Sentence with A, B, C, D, and F gets across NOTHING. Why, because no one will be able to read it. (Or they won’t want to bother trying.)

  I recently read an online argument about one of the most commonly used, and commonly fought, expressions around: It’s the answer to “how are you?” “I’m doing good” vs. “I’m doing well.” [NOTE: I'd also like to defend "I'm good," but others have done it well, so I've pasted a link below.] But first, [...]

Not a real post here, but just something I thought was funny. I’m reading about “Siri,” Apple’s new electronic assistant. You ask it to do things, and it does them. But I think the marketing writers should have reworked the paragraph shown in the image below:

A quick tip that I sometimes forget. Complicated ideas are often really hard to write concisely. When I try to compress an idea, I find that I start to lose accuracy, or add ambiguity. The thing that works best for me is to write it exactly how I’d explain it to someone, without worrying about [...]

Have you, as a writer, ever received feedback on a doc that didn’t give you what you need? As an editor or stakeholder, have you ever had to give feedback on a doc, but it didn’t work out as well as you’d hoped? I think sometimes the problem is that the person giving edits doesn’t [...]