Accepted.com | Odds-n-Ends Newsletter | January 2000 -
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Published on: 1/1/2000
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Odds ‘N Ends welcomes Liz Danziger, president of WorkTalk Communications, to its ethereal pages.Whether you are dealing with the 800-word AMCAS-E, the typical two-page personal statement, or those nasty 300-word MBA essays, every word counts.Liz, whose company helps the business world communicate, kindly shares her tips on that critical writing quality: brevity.
Tip of the Month
Worktalk Tool: Be Brief.
Words such as rather, pretty, very, and little, are the leeches that infest the body of prose, sucking the blood of words.We should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then.
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