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Nowadays, we’re often overridden with self-improvement plans, from 21-day diet plans to six-week courses that teach foreign languages. So why shouldn’t those of us who must create content for the gaping maw of the internet have our own shape-up plan for writing?
On the one hand, communicating is as human as breathing. Do you really need training for it? (Oh wait, isn’t that what yoga is for?)
Still, there are plenty of “experts” who don’t think writing deserves much attention, such as former Indiana University Basketball Coach Bobby Knight, who once said, “All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.”