We’re looking for a few good losers.

We launched our Business Writing Workshop full-time 5 years ago today!

To celebrate, we’re looking for the 5 best examples of the worst business writing in America.

(Re)introducing:

The Best of The Worst

The Search for America’s Worst Business Writing

Here’s your chance to show the world just how bad it gets.

You know those mystifying memos you receive from your president? Or the excruciatingly obscure emails your sales manager sends? Or the cryptic instructions from your IT department?

Well now you can put all those maddening messages to good use. Submit them to The Best of The Worst - The Search for America’s Worst Business Writing.

(If you’re really brave, submit your own writing.)

We’ll read all the entries we receive (if we can stomach it). Then we’ll pick the 5 most horrible examples as our Winning Losers.

The Real Winner (that’s you) will receive a free copy of Martha Brockenbrough's book: Things That Make Us [sic].

It’s funny, insightful, and an essential read for anyone who wants to be clear (especially your boss).

Plus we’ll read the Winning Losers’ wrenching writing on camera and publish the video on this site, so the rest of the world can suffer through it too.

(Hey, you shouldn’t have to endure that stuff alone.)

Best of all, we’ll revise the offending document using Sturtevant’s Principles of Clear Writing, then return it to you in much better shape.

Oh, by the way, nobody here at The Writing Workshop, or among the people we know and love, assumes any responsibility whatsoever if you send us your boss’s writing and he or she gets mad and fires you, or anything else bad happens.

The way we see it, you deserve a raise instead.

Submit your Best of The Worst example by clicking “Comment Here” below.