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Posted Dec. 4, 2023 At Hurley Write, one of the core beliefs driving our work is the idea that everyone, regardless of their background or education, can master effective writing. We've successfully worked with a diverse range of professionals, and we’ve yet to meet anyone whose writing skill cannot be improved—usually by a large margin. By providing widely accessible writing strategies, we're democratizing...
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Posted Nov. 26, 2018 If you struggle to produce effective writing, it may be because you're falling into some subtle language traps. On the surface, language traps refer to words or phrases whose meaning isn't clear to readers and, worse, can potentially mislead them into thinking you mean something you don’t. This is particularly true of jargon. For example, in one of our classes working with...
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Posted Jan. 16, 2018 If you’ve taken a writing course, you know that good writing involves many different skills and principles that must be learned, practiced, and exercised. Taken a step further, really good writing will even incorporate an understanding of human psychology. In fact, aspects of human psychology can profoundly impact how your readers receive and react to your writing. Here are three examples...
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This blog deals with the problem of the communication failure, which can plague a company at any time. A communication failure can occur when a complex situation or project requires the input of numerous parties. Often, not everyone involved in the project is able to effectively communicate with each other. In other instances, failure occurs because the initial communication wasn’t clearly thought out, making...
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With not too much effort, you can find a template to tell you how to do almost anything: write a business letter, construct a thesis, churn out a pulp novel. This is one kind of scaffolding that you can use for greater or lesser effect in the art of writing, but there's an even more important one that kicks in before you even start your outline, and that's the metastructure of critical thinking. Critical thinking...
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