jargon

Examples of jargon in the following topics:

• Avoiding Slang and Jargon

  • Business jargon includes terms like bandwidth, deliverable, bad apples, low-hanging fruit, and Six Sigma.
  • Jargon is the common vocabulary used by specific professions or groups of people within those professions.
  • Legal jargon, medical jargon, and police jargon are all examples of different types of jargon that exist in very different professions .
  • In addition, you should use jargon to help you establish credibility.
  • Police have their own specific jargon which may not be understood by those outside the profession.

• Keep it simple

  • Don't overload your waste-reduction process map with symbols, technical jargon or academic markings that render it incomprehensible.

• Battling the illusion of control

  • ' However, in our haste to mix jargon into everyday conversation, frames are sometimes confused with another psychological term: ‘nudges'.

• Teams

  • This involves reducing the amount of specialized jargon, sorting information based on importance, hiding complex statistical procedures from the users, giving interpretations of results, and providing clear explanations of difficult concepts.

• Delivering Bad News

  • Don't use jargon.

• The Middle

  • This same speaker delivering a talk to the general public would need to carefully consider what information to add or remove in order to bring the audience up to speed without intimidating them with jargon.

• Clarity

• Bureaucracies, Part I: Know How They Tick

  • For instance, people in separate departments of a large government agency may find themselves unable to cooperate because their jargons don't overlap.

• Write Productively-Part II

  • Particularly avoid broad terms and jargon unless you deliberately aim to obscure the purpose of your message.