50 Essential Strategies for Every WriterRoy Peter Clark of the Poynter Institute , a school for “journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists,” has a new book out called Writing Tools : 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer. Until July 1, the essays are available online.

I’m going to start with Writing Tool #9:

Prefer the simple to the technical: shorter words and paragraphs at the points of greatest complexity.

Critically important for writing about genetics and heart disease. Embarrassingly, I also got called on it last week.

via Writer’s Edge