The Plain English Approach to Business WritingIn offices across America, the Masters of Gobbledygook are hard at work. They're bombarding in boxes with those long, confusing memos that colleagues don't have the patience to read and bosses don't have the time to rewrite. They use words like commence or prior to instead of begin or before. They bury their main point somewhere in the last paragraph and take two pages to get there. Everybody knows one of them; in fact, you may even be one of them.