Empathy is the ability to take another's perspective or, as the saying goes, to walk in their shoes. Empathy requires the ability to...

My niece, who teaches college-level English, recently asked me how science writing is different from other forms of the craft. I thought...

You've likely been told at some point in your academic or professional career that you need to write in the active voice. But what...

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You may be surprised. One of the biggest challenges people face when writing is keeping their sentences short enough to engage their...

Canadians take pride in being distinct from our neighbours to the south. For example, we put a "u" in labour, go to the theatre, write...

Whether you work in health, science, research or engineering, you and your team probably spend a lot of time writing. At a minimum, you...

Whether you're writing for a funder, a stakeholder or a general audience, they have these things in common. Many of us learned how to...

It's important to choose words that are common and familiar to your reader whenever possible. This is especially true if you're...

You just need to know how to handle it. The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines jargon as, "Words or expressions used by a particular...