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Challenge
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ChallengeReplace the big words with small words. (a) When you make a donation... (b) This educational institution holds... (c) The culinary staff took up their pans and... (d) Implement the appropriate launch sequence for your computer. (e) We sent the samples back to the laboratory. (f) Please endeavor to ... (g) We reached the termination. (h) Before you start, we want to apprise you... (i) Poking around in the attic, she ascertained that ... |
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Reflecting on Brevity
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Other ways to trim that text 1a. Cut any paper-based text by 50%. 1c. Make some sentences short. 1d. Make most paragraphs short. 1f. Move vital but tangential or supplemental material. 1g. Convert repeating categories of information into tables. 1h. Beware of cutting so far that you make the text ambiguous. |
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Resources on brevity Heuristic Online Text (HOT) Evaluation for Brevity
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