The material we went over this week is what I need most out of this class. Being clear and concise makes you sound like a better writer. I am learning to take out the fluff and dump words like "a lot" or "very." These words are just not necessary to portray the meaning of your writing. This also helps with editing, of course. When we take time to get rid of the extra fluff words, as mentioned above, our writing becomes crisp. Here is an example of clear and concise writing I found from additional exercises online. The cluttered sentence reads, "At this point in time we can't ascertain the reason as to why the screen door was left open." A more concise version of this is simply, "We don't know why the screen door was left open."
A mistake I found while reading this week was at my job. We list addresses for clients and one of our employees spelled out "Thirty First Street" when they should have put "31st" and not spell out the entire word.
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ReplyDeleteYes, clear and concise is key to writing, according to my pr writing class.I have a problem of adding the extra fluff words and have learned to reread my work a few times and make corrections. It's a lot work since I am not use to it but little by little we'll all get better.
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I agree that this is exactly what I needed out of this class as well. I didn't realize that I needed work on it until I went through the lecture and powerpoint!
ReplyDeleteIn my job, this is crucial! We have to be clear and concise with our writing because we have only a certain amount of pages to fit content on it (which is hard sometimes, so we have to cut some words out and be concise!)
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