Writing Concisely
How many times have you lost focus deciphering a meandering email? Or started reading a memo with a tl;dr that was too long so you didn't read it either? Writing concisely is an important skill, especially at a company like Meta that "Moves Fast" and expects employees to keep up with constant updates while also working demanding, full-time jobs.
Harvard Business Review published a helpful editorial on "How to Write Concisely" in which they recommend to:
1. Delete words that don’t add anything to your sentence.
2. Cut the overlap.
3. Instead of telling us what you’re going to do in a sentence, just do it.
I recently led an offsite where we put HBR's advice into practice with the following exercise:
What other tips have you found helpful (bonus points if you comment on this article with your score)?
Happy writing!
Data Professional
9 个月I haven't done the exercise, but when I was a writing tutor in college, we reviewed the "Paramedic Method," which has seven steps for making your writing more concise. To apply it to what I just wrote: I haven't done the exercise, but when I worked as a college writing tutor we reviewed the "Paramedic Method" to write more concisely. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/paramedic_method.html