Feel my pain. Millions of employees must write more frequently on the job than previously. And many are making a hash of it. A recent survey of 120 American corporations concluded that a third of employees in the nation's blue-chip companies wrote poorly. "Clarity is critical." "Considering how highly educated our people are, many can't write clearly in their day-to-day work." "I was too wordy," Morrison said. "I liked long, convoluted passages rather than simple four-word sentences." "Instead of considering what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool out onto the screen." If only it were true! Just 1 in 3 write poorly? Oh, that would be great. I could really work with that. What corporate America can't build: a sentence |