Readers are also very adept at filling in the non-essential aspects of a narrative, as in the fourth example. Writers sometimes clog up their prose with one or more extra words or phrases that seem to determine narrowly or to modify the meaning of a noun but don't actually add to the meaning of the sentence.
Although such words and phrases can be meaningful in the appropriate context, they are often used as "filler" and can easily be eliminated.
Watch for phrases or longer passages that repeat words with similar meanings. Words that don't build on the content of sentences or paragraphs are rarely necessary. Many pairs of words imply each other.
Finish implies complete, so the phrase completely finish is redundant in most cases. A related expression that's not redundant as much as it is illogical is "very unique. One-of-a-kind-ness has no gradations; something is either unique or it is not. Specific words imply their general categories, so we usually don't have to state both. We know that a period is a segment of time, that pink is a color, that shiny is an appearance.
In each of the following phrases, the general category term can be dropped, leaving just the specific descriptive word:.
General Writing Academic Writing Conciseness. Eliminating Words Summary: This resource will help you write clearly by eliminating unnecessary words and rearranging your phrases. Wordy : I received your inquiry that you wrote about tennis rackets yesterday, and read it thoroughly. Yes, we do have. Concise : I received your inquiry about tennis rackets yesterday. The alleged quote appears to be a misrepresentation of a statement Gates gave at a TED conference in here , which has been repeatedly taken out of context see for example here , here.
The world today has 6. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent. But there, we see an increase of about 1. As previously explained by Reuters here , in his speech he was not suggesting the global population should be killed by use of vaccines. Gates has long been a proponent of slowing unsustainable population growth here by targeting the root causes of poverty and unrest, and told Forbes magazine in that when he first entered public health, it was to focus on contraception here.
It seems pretty silly to act as though the slogan of the winning team mattered. There is a second way that people have found slogans or targets as useful that is more compelling, in my opinion. This gets into tricky teritory but I think it is worth talking about this is just my own take on things — which might stray a bit from a conventional understanding.
When a slogan becomes a manifestation of a vision that drives how the organization makes decisions it can be seen as useful. What has happened in these cases is the aim which Deming discussed as important and constancy of purpose have been given a focus in a slogan.
When this happens and the organization is managed as a system the unifying vision is helpful. But this benefit results from a unified vision that is shared by everyone in the organization. The slogan is not what is helping, it is that unified vision and an understanding of managing the organization as a system.
The truth is, in my opinion, if you use a slogan that is consistent with the aim of the organization and which helps people remember that focus it can actually be useful. I realize this sounds wrong within the Deming context. But it really points out the way an aim and a slogan can be very close to each other. While they can seem very close they are very different in how they impact a management system.
Helping everyone remember the core aims of the organization is very useful. The way that is done could seem very similar to how slogans are used in a poor management system. But they are not similar.
An aim should impact how all decisions are made. The customer is the purpose of our work is a nice quote from Gandi I found on the wall of an Indian restaurant I frequented in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
If the organization used that to focus their vision. If when an employee was thinking what should I do now, kept that idea in mind and decided what to do based on that thought and management provided training to help employees understand how to take action based on that aim that would be wonderful.
In those cases where the slogan is actually used as a hammer to blame employees when results disappoint is when it does cause damage. Then the slogan is an aim that is truely an expression of the core values that determine decisions made by all employees including executives. But that is not often the case for those slogans that are slapped on posters and put in the workplace.
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