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It has long been recognised that a certain amount of challenge is a good thing. This is true in both the business and academic worlds. Challenges serve the useful function of motivating workers and learners to strive for excellence. This leads to such positive behaviours as time management, developing new levels of efficiency, and delegating [...]

It is no coincidence that students just beginning to learn to read are offered short, simple sentences of only two or three words each. This practice reflects the general understanding that the level of complexity inherent in a piece of writing will affect the reader’s ability to understand it.

The ability to write in an informative and authoritative manner is vital for businesses. The advent of such sites as Twitter with its 140-character limit, promotes writing that is immediate, brief, and somewhat informal. In this ‘Twitter Age’, much business writing has been influenced by this brevity, which can sometimes lead to cut corners and [...]