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  1. Mar 2025
    1. Even within businesses, people with different skill sets need to be able to communicate effectively with one another; engineers need to communicate with lawyers; mechanics with accountants; sales people with managers and executives.

      People with different skill sets, from my experience, have a hard time communicating the specifications of their respective roles to one another due to the lack of understanding of each others roles. It is very important to not only communicate clearly and but to also have a grasp what what the other person's role is and make it easier for them to understand the topic or problem at hand.

  2. Feb 2024
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    1. Present tense lends a sense of immediacy and intimacy that past tense may not. It may also help the writer stay focused on the “here and now,” rather than reflecting on the past, as s/he might in a memoir.

      I love using present tense in my essays, like it says in the highlighted sentences it brings so much intimacy while looking back at past events. It immerses you into the story way better than past tense in my opinion.

    2. Smells, sounds, and sensations will add texture to your descriptions.

      I struggle with using multiple senses. I stay stuck on visualizing everything, not realizing it's being repetitive.

  4. Jan 2024
    1. Certain transitional words and phrases aid in keeping the reader oriented in the sequencing of a story.

      I am absolutely terrible with transitional words. When I'm writing an essay or study I feel like my vocabulary is limited to 2 transitional words but when I'm helping someone I have fifty off the top of my head. I have to write them down to remember them.

    2. The big distinction between factual and fictional narratives is based on a writer’s purpose. The writers of factual stories try to recount events as they actually happened, but writers of fictional stories can depart from real people and events because the writers’ intents are not to retell a real-life event.

      Is there an in between with factual and fiction. For example All Quiet on the Western front is a fictional story but it tries to remain true of actual events that has happened in World War One.