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Communication Fundamentals

Fundamental can be defined as "core, central, the base".

The fundamentals will enable you as a communicator to achieve your goals with confidence. Whether you want to share a project update with a senior or prompt chatGPT effectively, the central concepts will help.

In this Fundamentals section you'll cover the following concepts:

  • clarity
  • conciseness
  • coherence
  • completeness
  • concreteness
  • correctness
  • courtesy/consideration
  • credibility

The above terms happily all begin with C, and so they are known as the C's of communication.

In addition, other core principles include the following:

  • audience
  • purpose
  • positive language
  • style and tone
  • you as the writer
  • the message
  • context and culture