Index

action verbs, 44

active listening, 117, 118

Affordable Healthcare Act, 80

ambiguous language, 40

audience, 63, 66–67

Barnum, P. T., 2–3

body language, 50, 113, 116

Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), 80–81

Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger), 38–39

center stage, 36

Chicago Manual of Style, The, 110

clarity, 7–10, 22, 35, 55, 56, 59, 76, 97, 100

coaching, 115

communications, 6, 18, 29, 33–36, 38, 39, 49, 50, 57–62, 69, 77, 113, 114

completeness, 101

conciseness, 17–18, 22, 28, 30, 35, 53, 69

concrete language, 43, 55, 64

concreteness, 101 consideration, 36, 56, 97

copyediting, 97, 101–102

copyeditor, 100–101

credibility, 57

Cycle to Civility, 53

dastardly language, 40–41

Davies, H., 82

deductible, 76, 79

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