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Business Communication For Career Readiness

This document discusses improving business writing through careful word choice. It provides tips for avoiding colloquialisms, contractions, acronyms, and jargon in business communication. Guidelines are given for using high impact words through straightforward sentences, simplified modifiers, and strong verbs. Specific rules are outlined for concise yet idiomatic English writing.

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Business Communication For Career Readiness

This document discusses improving business writing through careful word choice. It provides tips for avoiding colloquialisms, contractions, acronyms, and jargon in business communication. Guidelines are given for using high impact words through straightforward sentences, simplified modifiers, and strong verbs. Specific rules are outlined for concise yet idiomatic English writing.

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Business Communication for

Career Readiness
High Impact Business Writing
Module 1

with Sue Robins, M.S.


Lesson 3: Word Choice
Learning Objectives
• Learn colloquialisms and non standard
language that is inappropriate for business
writing
• Learn how to address
commonly used acronyms
and jargon
• Learn to simplify language
through straightforward
sentence structure and use
of high impact words.
Language
• Avoid nonstandard vocabulary and
colloquialisms
Language
• Avoid nonstandard vocabulary and
colloquialisms
• Do not end sentences
with “at”
Language
• Avoid nonstandard vocabulary and
colloquialisms
• Do not end sentences
with “at”
• Use contractions if they
sound natural
Language
• Avoid nonstandard vocabulary and
colloquialisms
• Do not end sentences
with “at”
• Use contractions if they
sound natural
• Watch out for homonyms,
words with various forms
and other commonly
confused words
Activity
• Review “Correcting Commonly Confused
Words”

• http://grammar.about.com/od/correctingerr
ors/a/comblogs03.htm
Avoid Acronyms
Avoid Jargon

Business Computer
Jargon Jargon
• Bottom line • User friendly
• Spearhead • Bug
• Insourcing • Robust
• Low hanging fruit • Blog
• Bandwidth • Tweeted
• In the red • Ubiquitous
Use High Impact Words

• Strong, impactful word


choices
• Retain true meaning
• Avoid simplistic modifiers
A Few General Rules
1. Don’t use multiple words when you can
use one
2. Stick to idiomatic English
3. Don’t drop articles
4. Remove words that aren’t
performing a real function
• Delete unnecessary prepositions
• Change “-ion” works to a verb
• Replace “is”, “as”, “are”, “was”
and “were” with stronger verbs
• Change “was hanging” to “hung”
• Change “is indicative of” to
“indicates
• Eliminate Padding!!!

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