Joe Pairman
Anxious about your writing? Trust your tongue more than “grammar rules”
To focus our audience on our message, we should trust our tongue more than grammar guides.
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Joe Pairman
Feb 226 min
Need help from a colleague? Paint them a picture.
Here’s a trick to make your work messages work: imagine you’re painting a dramatic picture.
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Joe Pairman
Aug 1, 20237 min
Communicate nuance clearly (a worked example)
Sometimes you need to convey a complex point in few words. Here’s how I reworked an over-simplistic message to clearly carry nuance.
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Joe Pairman
Jun 1, 20234 min
Grammar doctors don’t want you to know this weird old trick!
Shake up your sentence lengths; the rhythms keep your writing interesting and easy to absorb.
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Joe Pairman
May 1, 20236 min
Freshen up your canned ideas
The names we use for things at work are like canned food, comforting nouny stodge. We need the freshness of verbs and spices.
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Joe Pairman
Dec 1, 20223 min
Trip the tongue to grab the brain
What if "too plain" rots your brain? Sometimes disfluency – something surprising or complex – makes us pay better attention.
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Joe Pairman
Oct 1, 20223 min
You’ve been had. The passive voice was never bad.
“Avoid it”, the style guides write, “unless you really know what you are doing”. The implication is you don’t.
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