Assignment:
Choosing Powerful Words
As you rewrite these sentences, replace the clichés and buzzwords with plain language (if you don’t recognize any of these terms, you can fi nd defi nitions online):
a. Being a jack-of-all-trades, Dave worked well in his new general manager job.
b. Moving Leslie into the accounting department, where she was literally a fish out of water, was like putting a square peg into a round hole, if you get my drift .
c. My only takeaway from the off site was that Laird threw his entire department under the bus for missing the deadline.
d. I’d love to help with that project, but I’m bandwidth-constrained.
e. The board green-lighted our initiative to repurpose our consumer products for the commercial space.
Your answer must be, typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides, APA format and also include references.