Tag Archives: How to Write Better

How to Write Better Business Letters

Writing business letters is a forgotten art. The Internet has made us lazy writers. With a few keystrokes, we can kick off a short e-mail without thinking much about content, much less formatting. Have you ever reviewed your own e-mails and discovered misspellings, incomplete sentences, formatting mistakes, and grammatical errors? Usually we think nothing about […]

Writing Your Statement of Purpose for Graduate School Applications

DON’T: Don’t write the same things everyone else writes. I recently had a conversation with a professor on the admissions committee at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I had applied to the School’s Master of Fine Arts Writing Program, and she called me on a Sunday night to give me a surprise […]