Plain English Approach to Business Writing

In offices across America, the Masters of Gobbledygook are hard at work. They''re bombarding in-boxes with those long, confusing memos that colleagues don''t have the patience to read--and bosses don''t have the time to rewrite. They use words like "commence" or "prior to" instead of "begin" or "before." They bury their main point somewhere in the last paragraph--and take two pages to get there. E...