Acronyms often cause difficulties in legal writing, especially when they are overused. So wrote Mark Cooney in the July Michigan Bar Journal. Acronyms and initialisms, Cooney wrote, are difficult for ...

Why is so much administrative writing so bad? For the same reason that many syllabi are so horribly written. In a word, contexts. When writing, you can never be sure of the context in which what you ...

Acronyms are stronger. Abbreviations are wimpy abbreviated versions of the real thing. Acronyms can take on lives of their own. Consider AARP. It used to mean “American Association of Retired Persons.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Nobody expects you to be perfect all the time. However, there are some really glaring writing mistakes that when done repeatedly can ...