If you want to know whether your resume will stand out or be quickly dismissed, just look at how often you use the following adjectives: Hardworking, motivated, team player, detail-oriented, ...

Before 2006, I never gave much thought to nominalizations — noun forms like “beauty” and “the scheduling” that at heart are really adjectives like “beautiful” or verbs like “to schedule.” I was ...

There was a clear line between news and opinion. You reported what happened. You attributed your sources. You avoided adjectives that told the reader how to feel. The facts did that work on their own.