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What is succinctness?

• Overview of right brain-left brain concepts.
• Organizing and prioritizing your thoughts: Placing the essential content in relation to the intended goal.
• The difference between essential, secondary, and needless data.
• Making a distinction between facts and opinions and knowing the role of an argument.
• Adopting an easily comprehensible language and style: Creating simple phrases, using concrete words.

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Gleaning essential information from written materials

• Defining your reading and output goals.
• Knowing how to find accurate information and getting the gist of a subject.
• How do you conduct detailed research?
• Mastering scanning and skimming techniques: Using the method of eyeballing text.
• Finding the main goal of the text and what note to write.
• Prioritizing the purpose of the texts based on their type and structure.
• Producing easily usable briefing notes: Following a simple plan, giving an attractive title.

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Handling oral information

• Being a selective listener: Knowing how to keep a distance from the words that are spoken.
• Knowing how to capture and reuse keywords.
• Classifying the information provided: Writing a plan from the agenda or introduction.
• Using the heuristic mapping technique.
• Improving your note-taking.

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Creating a concise oral summary

• Organizing your ideas into a plan.
• Writing a logical, convincing argument.
• Listing keywords intended to attract participants’ attention.
• Knowing how to stay focused on the goal of your speech.
• Answering questions in a way that is brief and accurate.