{"id":1415,"date":"2016-04-07T16:57:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T23:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/?page_id=1415"},"modified":"2018-03-22T12:42:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:42:51","slug":"business-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/industry-project-guidelines\/communication-and-professionalism\/business-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Business writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/files\/2016\/04\/51a.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1420\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1420\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/files\/2016\/04\/51a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"51a\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/files\/2016\/04\/51a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/files\/2016\/04\/51a-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/files\/2016\/04\/51a-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/files\/2016\/04\/51a.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some people think that using long words makes you sound more authoritative. In fact the opposite is true, as a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/acp.1178\/abstract\">study<\/a> demonstrated. Being able to express yourself clearly and succinctly will always be more impressive than padding your writing with fancy-sounding words. Here\u2019s an example of how to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1_Sa7SVcUw3jrWuVPjGiVX3alBFjOVXmMP_1yvXm_6LXcmjFmI9rxRkEGfXhF\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">straightforward story<\/span><\/a> needlessly complicated and boring by using jargon. (If you didn\u2019t grow up with the source tale, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Story_of_the_Three_Bears\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">this<\/span><\/a> might help.)<\/p>\n<p>George Orwell&#8217;s classic <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rmst221\/files\/2010\/01\/orwell-pol-en.pdf\">essay<\/a> puts the importance of clear writing in a political context, as well as giving some basic rules for good writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk\/jbednar\/writingtips.html\">Here<\/a> is a more detailed list of common problems with formal writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people think that using long words makes you sound more authoritative. In fact the opposite is true, as a recent study demonstrated. Being able to express yourself clearly and succinctly will always be more impressive than padding your writing with fancy-sounding words. Here\u2019s an example of how to make a straightforward story needlessly complicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22979,"featured_media":0,"parent":279,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1415","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1415\/revisions\/1646"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/coetoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}