Mom to daughter, mission accomplished. "People discouraged her when she was young because they felt women just didn’t go into those disciplines. I think hearing her story of regret made me determined to pick a career in a field I was good at and enjoyed, regardless of what others thought or said. I was very clear in my own head about where my strengths were and what I wanted to do."
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How to Control Jargon – StyleWriter’s Jargon Buster
Everyone hates jargon. It’s everywhere. Technical reports, computer manuals, academic papers, legal documents – just about everything written in business, government, and academia has too much jargon. But now you can control it with software.
StyleWriter Professional will show you your jargon and encourage you to translate it into plain English. It can even let you record the jargon of your organization.
How does the software do this? It finds the three most common forms of jargon and displays them in its Editor’s List for you to review.
- Abbreviations (usually referred to as acronyms)
- Specialist or technical words
- Abstract phrases
StyleWriter finds all your abbreviations. You can ask the program to highlight them in your text or go through the Editor’s List to choose which to highlight. For example, you might highlight those you only use once or twice. Good editing can usually cut half the abbreviations used. The program has advice on how to do this.
To find your specialist words and jargon phrases, StyleWriter uses its 500,000-word, graded database. StyleWriter assesses every word you write for its frequency and complexity and lists specialist words in the Editor’s List.
To find your jargon phrases, every word in the graded database has a numerical value.’ If two, three, or more words build a phrase with a high value, StyleWriter lists it as a jargon phrase.
StyleWriter also uses its analysis to measure your use of jargon. In the 9,280-word document analyzed and shown in the graphic, the program found 77 acronyms, 37 specialist or technical words, and 183 jargon phrases. This gave it a percentage score of 3.3 percent, over three times the target score.
Jargon 3.3% Poor Up to 1%
Sentence 23.8 Poor 11-20
Passive Index 24.0 Good Up to 15
Bog Index 78.0 Poor Up to 30
Reading Grade 15.6 Difficult Up to 12
Wordy 43% Fair Up to 40%
Interest 10 Fair Over 13
StyleWiter will find your jargon, your organization's jargon, and your industry's jargon. But only you can cut the jargon by rethinking how you write to benefit your readers.
Download the 14-day free trial of StyleWriter professional from www.editorsoftware.com and discover your jargon.
#jargon #technical writing #business #editing #copy-editing# #legal #software
Everyone hates jargon. It’s everywhere. Technical reports, computer manuals, academic papers, legal documents – just about everything written in business, government, and academia has too much jargon. But now you can control it with software.
StyleWriter Professional will show you your jargon and encourage you to translate it into plain English. It can even let you record the jargon of your organization.
How does the software do this? It finds the three most common forms of jargon and displays them in its Editor’s List for you to review.
- Abbreviations (usually referred to as acronyms)
- Specialist or technical words
- Abstract phrases
StyleWriter finds all your abbreviations. You can ask the program to highlight them in your text or go through the Editor’s List to choose which to highlight. For example, you might highlight those you only use once or twice. Good editing can usually cut half the abbreviations used. The program has advice on how to do this.
To find your specialist words and jargon phrases, StyleWriter uses its 500,000-word, graded database. StyleWriter assesses every word you write for its frequency and complexity and lists specialist words in the Editor’s List.
To find your jargon phrases, every word in the graded database has a numerical value.’ If two, three, or more words build a phrase with a high value, StyleWriter lists it as a jargon phrase.
StyleWriter also uses its analysis to measure your use of jargon. In the 9,280-word document analyzed and shown in the graphic, the program found 77 acronyms, 37 specialist or technical words, and 183 jargon phrases. This gave it a percentage score of 3.3 percent, over three times the target score.
Jargon 3.3% Poor Up to 1%
Sentence 23.8 Poor 11-20
Passive Index 24.0 Good Up to 15
Bog Index 78.0 Poor Up to 30
Reading Grade 15.6 Difficult Up to 12
Wordy 43% Fair Up to 40%
Interest 10 Fair Over 13
StyleWiter will find your jargon, your organization's jargon, and your industry's jargon. But only you can cut the jargon by rethinking how you write to benefit your readers.
Download the 14-day free trial of StyleWriter professional from www.editorsoftware.com and discover your jargon.
#jargon #technical writing #business #editing #copy-editing# #legal #software
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"So many times in my life I heard my mother talk about how she wished she had gone into science or mathematics. She was always sure that she would have found university easier taking the subjects that she had been very good at while in high school. People discouraged her when she was young because they felt women just didn’t go into those disciplines. I think hearing her story of regret made me determined to pick a career in a field I was good at and enjoyed, regardless of what others thought or said. I was very clear in my own head about where my strengths were and what I wanted to do."
In her biography Donna Strickland tells us about her life story and her road to a Nobel Prize: https://bit.ly/36Ey8dR
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In her biography Donna Strickland tells us about her life story and her road to a Nobel Prize: https://bit.ly/36Ey8dR
#NobelPrize
Growing up in Japan, I remember that we were not encouraged to pursue STEM disciplines. Thanks to my father and mother, I was encouraged to pursue whatever my thoughts and heart lead me. I am fortunate and happy to report that i have a career in Mathematics which I love till this day.
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So imagine starting law at 35 years old and catching up all those lost years when others started law at 18 years old. They have 20 years ahead of them to become 38 years old for that opportunity to be appointed a KC.
Thanks for inspiring so many.
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I am not too inspired given also "I was very clear in my own head about where my strengths were and what I wanted to do", but she found a career in Canada, but I didn't, and both of us are Canadian. You tell me, what had I done in chemistry in Canada?
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