Communications

4 qualities of good communication

1. Economy - return on time

2. Directness - honesty (or the impression of honesty)

3. Detail - (one that give u enough detail to evaluate it for urself) form of honouring the audience

4. Voice

Bureaucratese

1. Wordiness - using more words than u need to

2. Redundancy

3. Clichйs - is like cancer wordiness is like the flu

If you wanna convey sumthing always put it in a story - it always works and engages their minds

For Monday we have to write a bad paragraph

Write about 50 words that say nothing using clichйs wordiness redundancy

Assignment 1.

Write a simple story that has happened to you as a kid or last week or this morning doesn't have to be significant or big

1. Don't try to be smart, don't try to impress prof. use everyday language

2. Short sentences, you should hesitate on any sentence over 10 words

3. Tell your story tru detail show what happened

4. Write in your own voice

5. No morals please - no summaries about what it means

Double space and title page

20 min or less video with each person in the group telling a little story with the same principles as before

Communications 2

Editing process

1. Identifying strength → positive process. Gives clarity, humor, detail, personality, voice, lively sentences,

2. Edit → weakness that can easily be changed that contributes to the piece.

3. Opportunities → anything the writer did not take advantage of.

Always use a roadmap in presentations

Talk with not at

Never read your presentation ... includes making notes

Never memorize the presentation

Voice means expressing your personality and experience

Speak in a comfortable and understandable way ... humanize yourself

Include something that is