{"id":172,"date":"2020-11-27T22:18:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soaoer.centennialcollege.ca\/communicationcommons\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=172"},"modified":"2020-11-30T23:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T23:20:45","slug":"be-concise","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/soaoer.centennialcollege.ca\/communicationcommons\/chapter\/build-your-toolkit\/be-concise\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Concise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First drafts are for free. Use all the words you need to generate your ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mytheme-blocks-example example-block\">\n<p>One of the big problems in communication is when readers are forced to wade through far more words than they need to get fundamentally the same meaning. (27 words)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But then go back and trim unnecessary words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mytheme-blocks-example example-block\">\n<p>A key communication problem is using more words than needed to express the same meaning. (15 words)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Go further. When relevant, focus on solutions. Propose actions. These lend themselves to concise, razor-sharp points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mytheme-blocks-example example-block\">\n<p>To help your readers, trim unnecessary words. (7 words)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":198,"parent":110,"menu_order":4,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soaoer.centennialcollege.ca\/communicationcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soaoer.centennialcollege.ca\/communicationcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soaoer.centennialcollege.ca\/communicationcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soaoer.centennialcollege.ca\/communicationcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soaoer.centennialcollege.ca\/communicationcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soaoer.centennialcollege.ca\/communicationcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}