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You must read each slide, and complete any questions on the slide, in sequence.
Exercise W4-3
Jargon, pretentious language, euphemisms, doublespeak
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The sentences in this exercise are all taken from one paragraph about ethics and professional responsibility. The following is the first sentence in the paragraph: "Intentionally using a position of responsibility to harm other people is inexcusable."
From each pair of sentences below, click on the one that is free of jargon, pretentious or flowery language, euphemisms, or doublespeak.
Click Submit after each question to see feedback and to record your answer. After you have finished every question, your answers will be submitted to your instructor’s gradebook. You may review your answers by returning to the exercise at any time. (An exercise reports to the gradebook only if your instructor has assigned it.)
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Correct. This sentence is free of pretentious language such as onus of responsibility and ethical comportment. For more help, see section W4-a.
Sorry. Language such as onus of responsibility and ethical comportment sounds pretentious. For more help, see section W4-a.
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Correct. There is no need to call doctors, police officers, and teachers practitioners of medicine, officers of the law, and facilitators of learning. For more help, see section W4-a.
Sorry. There is no need to call doctors, police officers, and teachers practitioners of medicine, officers of the law, and facilitators of learning. For more help, see section W4-a.
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Correct. The language is clear and simple. For more help, see section W4-a.
Sorry. Words such as transgress and expiate sound pretentious when used to express a simple concept. For more help, see section W4-a.
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Correct. This sentence avoids long-winded fancy talk. For more help, see section W4-a.
Sorry. This version contains flowery language (wearers of the badge, New York’s finest) and jargon (adjudged culpable of). In addition, the sentence opens with a pretentiously long-winded phrase and ends with a needlessly fancy term meaning “arrested”: seized by legal warrant. For more help, see section W4-a.
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Correct. In the other version, words such as aversion, implicating, and egregious seem pretentious because they are used to express a relatively simple thought. For more help, see section W4-a.
Sorry. There is nothing wrong with words such as aversion, implicating, and egregious, but when used to express a relatively simple thought, they will strike most readers as pretentious. For more help, see section W4-a.
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Correct. In the other version, the term cognizant of sounds pretentious, and forces marshaled against him seems too flowery. Also, there is no reason to say repudiated his . . . declaration when the simpler changed his plea will do. For more help, see section W4-a.
Sorry. The term cognizant of sounds pretentious, and forces marshaled against him seems too flowery. Also, there is no reason to say repudiated his . . . declaration when the simpler changed his plea will do. For more help, see section W4-a.
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Correct. Whoever wrote the other version should come down to earth (the language soars too high) and stay away from the thesaurus (words like salubriousness can be off-putting). For more help, see section W4-a.
Sorry. Whoever wrote this version should come down to earth (the language soars too high) and stay away from the thesaurus (words like salubriousness can be off-putting). For more help, see section W4-a.
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Correct. In the other version, in the first blush of his medical residency is flowery, and the words expired and jestingly seem pretentious in this context. For more help, see section W4-a.
Sorry. In the first blush of his medical residency is flowery, and the words expired and jestingly will strike most readers as pretentious in this context. For more help, see section W4-a.
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Correct. This version describes the crime in language everyone will understand. For more help, see section W4-a.
Sorry. This version uses euphemisms (effectuating the passing on and introducing toxins into their bodies intravenously) for no good reason. The crime should be described in language everyone will understand. For more help, see section W4-a.
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Correct. In the other version, proved false to their oaths to safeguard others and pose a greater peril sound flowery, and calling a criminal undistinguished rather than just plain ordinary seems euphemistic and pretentious. For more help, see section W4-a.
Sorry. Proved false to their oaths to safeguard others and pose a greater peril sound flowery, and calling a criminal undistinguished rather than just plain ordinary seems euphemistic and pretentious. For more help, see section W4-a.
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