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: Manage Your WritingThis week: Look smarter
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Cartoonist Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, wrote:
If you want to advance in management, you have to convince other people that you're smart. This is accomplished by substituting incomprehensible jargon for common words. For example a manager would never say, "I used my fork to eat a potato." A manager would say, "I utilized a multitined tool to process a starch resource." The two sentences mean almost the same thing, but the second one is obviously from a smarter person.
In reality, some research shows that when readers and listeners can't understand your sentences, they think of you as less intelligent, not more.
This week, as you revise, look for ways to simplify your language. You'll look smarter.
Full post as published by Manage Your Writing on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).
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