
Clear Sharp Writing
For over 15 years, we’ve helped executives in highly technical industries communicate complex ideas—typically in less than two days—so that they can get important projects out the door.
We don’t try to change your message. We make it clearer, and we make it sharper.

Services
Corporate Writing/Editing
Training & Workshops
Business Book Editing

About Clear Sharp Writing
Elizabeth believes that great writing is simple writing. When you truly understand what you want to say, you can say it in a way that anyone can understand. And she has spent her career transforming complicated, data-driven, and research-based insights into clear, sharp, simple language. She has taught writing at top universities for over a decade, and her scholarship has been published in peer-reviewed journals. In addition, she worked in the investment management industry for almost a decade and has experience with mutual funds, high net worth individuals and trusts, fixed income investments, equities, and hedge funds. After earning tenure as a faculty member, Elizabeth decided to leverage her consulting experience and lead a full-service editing and communications business.
Recent Posts
The One E-mail Principle You Need
“How can I help my team send better e-mails?” I get this question a lot.
It’s occasionally put like this: “Kids today can’t even send a decent e-mail!”
Death by bullet point applies to writing too!
Bullet points are just as bad in business writing as they are in PowerPoint.
There’s a growing tide of evidence, anecdotal and scientific, that bullet points are bad for presentations.
“Which” versus “That”: which one should you use?
This one confuses people, but grammar nerds know that it’s simple: You use “that” for restrictive clauses and “which” for non-restrictive clauses.
Huh? What does that mean?