Websites, books & tools
Training | |
 | Learn to Take the Numb Out of Numbers and more in Ann Wylie’s clear-writing workshop. |
Calculators | |
 | It’ll cost how much to pay my sunglasses off over 20 years? |
 | What is Your Dollar Worth Today? A cool way to compare the price of a candy bar or movie ticket between decades. |
 | Find out how much your Clay Center, Kansas, salary will buy you in California. |
 | “The fact that 10 is a bigger number than 9 doesn’t make 10 rupees worth more than $9; nor does it make $10 from 2004 worth more than $9 from 1981.” — David Leonhardt, The New York Times economics correspondent |
 | When I ask workshop attendees to figure percentage change, they act like it’s the hardest thing they’ve ever done. I think knowing how to figure percentage change is an important life skill. But why bother when there’s an app for that? |
Converters | |
 | Welcome to OnlineConversion.com Convert just about anything to anything else. Thousands of units, and millions of conversions. |
 | The World’s Trusted Currency Authority: For when you need to translate dinars to dollars or vice versa. |
Tipsheets | |
 | Statistics Every Writer Should Know Don’t know a median from a mean? Get up to speed fast with Robert Niles’ simple guide to understanding basic statistics. |
 | We hear about trillions all the time now, but the number is beyond human comprehension. |
How can you help readers get the numbers?
If your readers are like most, they have, on average, below-basic numerical literacy, according to a massive international literacy study.
In this environment, how well are they understanding your statistics?Learn to make numbers interesting and understandable at Rev Up Readability, our tight-writing workshop on Dec. 6.
There, you’ll learn to avoid statistics soup and data dumps; how to make numbers more emotional; how to create meaningful — not discombobulating — charts and which key question to ask every time your fingers reach for the top row of the keyboard.
Save $100 when you book by Sept. 15.
