Editor’s note: Poynter announced that the newly renamed 2024 Poynter Journalism Prizes will feature a category honoring longtime writing coach Roy Peter Clark and recognizing compelling short writing ...

If you're not familiar with the term "career summary," it's those few lines or bullets at the top of your resume directly under your name and contact information that tell an employer who you are.

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An industry analysis study and paper generally includes an abstract at the beginning, sometimes confused with an executive summary. The purpose of an abstract is to provide a shorter version of the ...

Copilot integration in Microsoft 365 apps makes it a snap to generate first drafts, revise text, and get instant summaries for long docs or email threads. Here’s how to use Copilot for writing ...

Writing this sentence was hard. There were so many other things I could have gone with. That set of words seemed right at the time, roughly 90 seconds ago. Now I’m not so sure. Joan Didion once said ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robin Ryan is a career counselor who covers job search and careers. Some people hate to write about themselves. That is what Mary, ...

Just about anyone in business has to write reports. These reports may be a few pages or they may be hundreds of pages in length. The one common element in most reports is something called the ...

An executive summary is a portion of a business plan that sums up all of the information a business plan contains. Since this is a summary of the plan's contents, you write this piece last. For a ...

Okay. Let’s get this out there: your first draft of anything is going to be bad — I mean, really bad. Because that’s the job of a first draft. To be bad. And your job is to write it. Once you write ...