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Choose WORDS with Care

Choose WORDS with Care. Liz, Austin, Adam. Your Goal:. Choose words that make your message clear, concise, and natural sounding. 4 Effective Word Choice. Avoid unnecessary adjectives and adverbs. Use specific words. Avoid technical words and jargon. Choose words that sound natural.

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Choose WORDS with Care

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  1. Choose WORDS with Care Liz, Austin, Adam

  2. Your Goal: • Choose words that make your message clear, concise, and natural sounding.

  3. 4 Effective Word Choice • Avoid unnecessary adjectives and adverbs. • Use specific words. • Avoid technical words and jargon. • Choose words that sound natural.

  4. What do I need to know about modifiers? • Cut unnecessary adjectives and adverbs. Redundant modifiers annoy readers and make writing sound puffed up.

  5. Activity Directions: Take out the unnecessary adjectives in the following sentences. • Let me provide my personal opinion. • Talks will soon resume again. • Claire first originated the idea. • We appreciate your mutual cooperation. • Ed outlined our final conclusions.

  6. Activity Answers • Let me provide my personal opinion. • Talks will soon resume again. • Claire first originated the idea. • We appreciate your mutual cooperation. • Ed outlined our final conclusions.

  7. How do you know what the “right” word is? • Watch for easily confused words- to, too, or two; their, there, or they’re; affect, effect; accept, except; amount, number; and many more.

  8. Activity 2 Directions: Match the words on the left to the more specific words on the right. People Put An amount Next week Added January 12th Employees Dollars

  9. Activity 2 Answers • 1. People (3- Employees) • 2. Put (1- Added) • 3. An Amount (4- Dollars) • 4. Next Week (2- January 12th)

  10. What do I need to know about verbs and nouns? • You need to know that active verbs give your writing energy and momentum and specific nouns make your writing precise. Bottom line: Use active verbs and specific nouns.

  11. The End

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