Writing well is for school. Writing effectively is for life.
Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink offer the most valuable practical writing advice today. Building on their own research in behavioral science, they outline cognitive facts about how people actually read and distill them into six principles that will transform the power of your writing:
Less is more
Make reading easy
Design for easy navigation
Use enough formatting, but no more
Tell readers why they should care
Make responding easy
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