Editing for Conciseness Is

question 85

Multiple Choice

Editing for conciseness is

• A) less important than editing for clarity.
• B) simply a matter of cutting all paragraphs to no more than three sentences each.
• C) not necessary for business messages.
• D) easy, and should be done as you write.
• E) helpful to readers, and can make them more likely to read your documents.

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Definitions:

Analogue Methodology

Research methods that simulate real-life situations in a controlled environment, often used to study behaviors or phenomena that cannot be directly manipulated for ethical or practical reasons.

Internal Validity

The degree to which a study can demonstrate a causal relationship between variables, free from the contamination of other variables that might confound the results.

External Validity

The degree to which a study's findings can be applied to different contexts and diverse individuals.

Generalizability

The extent to which research findings and conclusions can be applied to broader populations or different contexts beyond the study sample.