Developing Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is essential to good decision-making. Learn these four skills to help you become a more effective critical thinker.
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How to Overcome 3 Self-Limiting Habits and Write Authentically
Many women are powerful communicators–clear, direct, and concise. Nevertheless, when training women business leaders to write, I see that they often sabotage themselves in business communication by apologizing, using indirect language, and over-informing.
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4 Secrets to Overcoming Writer’s Block
Let’s face it — writing can be scary. Whether you are writing a report, performance review or proposal, or any business document, you worry about how your reader will respond. When your concerns about writing lead to an inability to start, work on or complete a writing task, you might suffer from writer’s block.
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Eliminate Hedging Words
“Words such as rather, pretty, very, and little are the leeches that infest the body of prose, sucking the blood of words. We should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then.”
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More Tortured Idioms: The 800-Pound Gorilla in the Room
As Mark Twain said, “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.” In the hum of daily speech, people may misunderstand a phrase without realizing that they have misunderstood it. Then they prance merrily through life, saying and writing things like “in the
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