Contoh dalam kata Here. Here. Here dengan tonasi yang terus mengecil
maka akan menggambarkan situasi yang dramatis
Contoh lainnya adalah pidato dari Ir. Soekarno dan Bung Tomo dengan
intonasi yang tegas dapat membakar semangat para pejuang.
Contoh penggunaan bahasa dengan berhati-hati adalah pada pidato yang
ditulis oleh David McCullough dan pada bagian kesimpulan autobiography
Nelson Mandela
USING THE
LANGUANGE OF
INFLUENCE
4 primary purpose in communication :
a. To inform
b. To influence/persuade
c. To instruct
d. To engage
COMMUNICATING CONCISELY
BUT NOT TOO CONCISELY
Concise = expressing much in a few words
Concise writing
Free of
Direct To the point
jargon
Wordy
Pomposity constructio
n
COMMUNICATING CONCISELY
BUT NOT TOO CONCISELY
Conciseness creating problems
Writing concisely but not to concisely requires
Practice and critical eye
Understanding audience
Expectations in the different media
COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY
AND FORCEFULLY
1. Use active voice instead of passive
Passive :
Happiness is sought by all and suffering desired to be
avoided. The same basic human needs and concerns
are possessed by all.
Active :
We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We
have the same basic human needs and concerns.
Use passive voice only if :
We want to protect the actor in the sentence
Expletives :
there is
it is
it is that
COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY
3. Avoid the use of prepositional idioms
AND FORCEFULLY
Idioms to Avoid Concise Replacements
Due to the fact that Because
During the time that While
For the purpose of To
For the reason that Because, since
If the conditions are such that If
In order to To
In the event that If
In the area of In
In the case of In
In the interest of For
In the nature of In
In the region of Around
Next to By
On the top of On, above
Over and above Beyond
With regard to Regarding
With the purpose of To
COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY
AND FORCEFULLY
4. Avoid the overuse of relative pronouns (who, which, that)
Unecessary relative pronouns Sentences without relative
pronouns
Mr. Bigelow is a man who never Mr. Bigelow never misses a
misses a meeting meeting
The documentation which was Joan Brownings documentation
written by Joan Browning is is helpful
helpful
COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY
AND FORCEFULLY
5. Avoid the needless repetitions of words and ideas
Do Dont
The team will investigate the design flaws to determine what caused the crash
Spelling or
Sentence Punctuati Misuse of
wrong
Contruction on Pronouns
words
Sentence Misuse of Disagreement of (possessive) or
Fragments apostrophes pronoun and there for
Run-On Sentence Missing commas antecedent their
Faculty Parallel or commas where Incorrect
Structure not needed pronouns, subject
Dangling Overuse or in place of object
Modifiers misuse of dashes or object in place
Subject/verb or ellipses of subject
agreement
SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION
Sentence Fragments (kalimat yang tidak lengkap)
tidak ada subject, tidak ada main verb, komponen verb tidak lengkap, tidak ada subject
dan predicate,diawali subordinate conjuction
Run-On Sentences
kalimat yang terdiri dari 2 atau lebih independent claus namun tidak terhubung dengan benar
Faculty parallel structure
Elemen elemen kalimat yang memiliki fungsi yang sama menggunakan konstruksi atau
pola gramatikal yang sama. Elemen tersebut meliputi kata, frasa, dan klausa.
Dangling modifier
Kata yang tidak menerangkan apapun yang tertulis dalam kalimat.
Subject/verb agreement
Persesuaian antara verb dengan kata kerja.
PUNCTUATION
Misuse of apostrophes
kesalahan pada peletakan tanda baca (punctuation mark) yang digunakan untuk
membentuk possessive form (kepemilikan), Contraction(penghilangan
huruf/angka) dan plural (menjamakkan).
Contoh: possessive form : the mens room, his mother-in- laws house
contraction form : Im , wouldve, shell
prural : 1900s, 110lbs
Missing commas or commas where not needed
missing a critical comma can change the entire meaning of your sentence
Overuse or misuse of dashes or ellipses
penggunaan tanda hubung yang dtidak tepat. Biasa digunakan untuk menghubungkan
kalimat majemuk, untuk mennggabarkan range suatu nilai, jarak.
MISUSE OF PRONOUNS
Disagreement of pronoun and antecedent
ketidak sesuaian antara pronoun dengan antecedent dalam hal number,
person dan gender. Antecedent adalah kata, frasa atau kalusa yang di
gantikan oleh pronoun.
Incorrect pronouns, subject in place of object or object in place of
subject
penggunaan kata ganti yang tidak tepat
SPELLING OR WRONG
WORDS
Its (contraction for it is) for its (possessive) or there for their
EDITING AND
PROOFREADING TECHNIQUES
Editing
reviewing presentation, documents
and all other written communication
to see if they are clear, concise and
correct. Proofreading
Try to put some time between you write something and when you proof it
Know what error make you tend to make or overlook, and watch for them
particular
Watch for common trouble spots
Recognize the limitations of spell-checkers, but always run them to catch careless
error
Proof using a hard copy instead of on the screen whenever your communication is important complex
Proof read the document and each slide backwards to cats typos and spelling errors. Focus on each word
THANK YOU