3 Ways To Make Your Writing Clearer

Harvard Business Review · Oct 24, 2026 · 4m

3 Ways To Make Your Writing Clearer

Uploaded 03-11-21

3 Nov 2021

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If your message isn’t clear, changing a word here or there won’t help. You need these 3 strategies to get to the heart of the problem.

00:00 Writing is hard, especially under deadline

00:20 Sentence-level corrections won't save you if your message isn't clear

00:31 Cut the "since the dawn of time" opening

01:03 Write claim-based topic sentences

01:48 Make sure people are doing thing in your sentences ...

02:18 ... unless you don't want them to be doing things

02:50 Summary

Next time you finish a document with a few minutes…