2. Clarity Good: It’s clear. Make sure your message isn’t muddled. Help the audience get main takeaways. Don’t include extraneous material if it doesn’t contribute in some way.

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Senior Indonesian journalist and author Leila S. Chudori, born in 1962, began writing at an early age. Her two novels center on the 1965 communist purge and the tragedy leading up to the 1998 ...

Write Short and Sweet Email Subject Lines. If you want people to open–and read–your emails, make your subject lines pithy and precise. Email isn’t a mystery story with a big reveal at the end.

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And in the KIPP schools, they teach first-graders to pay attention by training them to SLANT (Sit up, Look and Listen to the speaker, Ask questions, Nod, and Track the teacher).