Please Read and Grow Your Vocabulary
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Please Read and Grow Your Vocabulary

I just started using Grammarly last week. This morning, they sent me my stats and to be frank I am worried about the lack of "Grammarly's" user base who don't have, or at least use, an extensive vocabulary of words they use in their communications.

I mean, I've only been sending emails during the time of my Grammarly experience using 2,159 unique words - what maybe one per email - but I am at the top of Grammarly with a score of 97%.

Are you college kids using Grammarly for your research papers?

Having an extensive, dictionary-like vocabulary isn’t necessary, but it is good to have an expanded vocabulary. This will not only improve your speech, but your writing as well. Here are seven ways you can improve your vocabulary and expand your skills in communicating your true thoughts

  1. Read, read, and read, and read more!
  2. Keep a dictionary and thesaurus handy, you have a smartphone don't you?
  3. Journal your thoughts! If you are trying to accurately tell yourself something important or interesting about your own life, you'll want to get it down to the minute details. Have you ever seen Eminem's journals? In 2014, he broke the world record for getting more the 1,500 different words into one song!
  4. Learn a word a day - every day!
  5. Go back to your roots, start from scratch if you have to!
  6. Play word games!
  7. Or hey, actually engage in verbal conversations! Texting and even email limit the use of words, so talk to your friends, family, and co-workers!

Be Well, DrJ

PS - my accuracy needs work, but then again I type fast and isn't that why I am using Grammarly in the first place!?


Lorri Thanos

Healthcare Recruitment | Better Healthcare through Wellness | Strategic Sales Leader| Relationship Builder| Grit | SaaS Telehealth & RPM Rainmaker | A Country Girl born in the City

7 年

Excellent topic for a post Dr. J. As I respond to much of my communication received electronically over my IPhone. It certainly doesn't help, creating additional typos and the predicted word application, if I don’t stop and re read an entire note before hitting send. The outcome is less than desirable, in fact completely different than I intended. Having a good sense of humor helps when I later read something I had written in haste and certainly didn't intend to imply. The fact remains that the recipient of the correspondence, may not share my humor and quite honestly gauges their opinion of my intelligence based on a hasty response. LinkedIn is one application that certainly doesn't make commenting easy anyway and typographical errors remain out there for all to read. You can’t go back and correct a grammatical error without retyping the entire response. So you choose your battles wisely, remain silent on a topic, or let the chance of your entire professional network, think you could not beat a 5th grader at a grammar contest. The best posturing would be to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your IPhone and remove all doubt.

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