Websites, books & other tools
Training | |
 | Book Ann for an in-house or association workshop Learn to increase engagement with step-by-step techniques for writing successful content marketing pieces. |
 | NOT Your Father’s PR Writing workshop Learn to get the word out with media relations Get the word out: Learn to put your PR pieces among the 3% to 45% of those that actually get picked up. |
 | Reach Readers Online web-writing workshop Overcome the obstacles of reading on the small screen Learn to write web content that engages your target audience at our mobile writing-for-the-web classes. |
Tools for fighting gibberish | |
 | This British organization has been “fighting for crystal-clear communication since 1979.” Find free guides, tips, news, awards, quotes and more. |
 | Learn enough about complicated processes and procedures — from LASIK surgery to liposuction, from cloning to currency — to be able to describe them in conversational terms. |
 | This site boasts an index of more than 10 million words in 942 dictionaries. Put your word in once, and OneLook will search them all. |
Why avoid jargon | |
 | Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists Scientific papers containing lots of specialized terminology are less likely to be cited by other researchers. |