writing
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. You’ve read many times the advice to keep your writing clear and concise. You get concise sentences when you take out the words you don’t need. But how
auditing
Last week I wrote that perfection comes from including only the essential. Let me explain one way to apply that thinking to an audit report or similar (as taught to me when I worked at a Big Four firm). Let’s say that the work being reported has identified 10
What did the authors Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway have in common? Well, aside from being American, they all had a writing style that was direct; they did not waste words. Sometimes I like to read a book with a lyrical style but for the most part I