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Choose awriting style

• Base your writing style on your overall communication strategy.

• Your relationship with the audience.• Context: use cold and indifferent to an audience

of academics, researchers, accountants but be engaging and humorous for teaching students.

• The very nature of the message.

Choosing a writing styleChoosing a writing style

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• Formal versus informal• Passive versus assertive• Be careful of industry jargon• Practice brevity: be CONCISE• Munter (pgs 82-83) Macro-writingMacro-writing checklist:

– Do your ideas connect together?– Does your opening engage?– Does you close effectively?

Choosing your styleChoosing your style

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K.I.S.S

http://howtowritebetter.net/does-your-writing-style-really-matter/

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