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Writing tips
Tackling tricky messages: the good way to give bad news
Companies need to communicate bad news all the time, so it’s surprising they often still get it wrong. Learn the science behind delivering difficult messages.
Writing tips
You get what you give: the basics of using AI language tools
When it comes to AI models like Chat-GPT and its language-learning brethren, we’ve found one thing to be strikingly clear: you get what you give. Which means that prompt design – or what you say to Large Language Models
Diversity and Inclusion
A dose of our own medicine: lessons from our D.E.I. audit
We talk about the language of inclusivity for a living. Time to walk the walk. This year, we audited The Writer's website to see how it measured up to our own stringent standards for DEI.
Writing tips
How to take feedback (and like it)
We’ll let you into a grubby secret: this blog isn’t the work of one writer. No solitary genius sits down to hammer out our listicles. Even this post is a collaboration.
Writing tips
Too little too late: why your UX isn’t delivering
Devices with ten tabs open. Inboxes spammed with abandoned checkout emails. Life admin lists with tasks outstanding. Sound familiar? We’d bet words are 50% to blame.