by Sharon Ernst | Nov 24, 2025 | Business Writing Skills
Published August 2024, updated November 2025–Word puking gets in the way of better business writing because it says nothing and wastes time. As the amount of information inundating us daily continues to increase and our ability to pay attention to it continues to decrease, it becomes ever more important to communicate well…if we want to communicate at all. Yet I continue to see countless examples of what I call word puking. What is word puking, you ask? Writing with lots of words but zero intention of actually communicating...
