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Here's one easy suggestion: stop using non-words like "upskill." If you used "improve" how would that lose any meaning?

• kenjackson 4y ago
  To me they mean two different things. "Upskill" tells me he wants the people on his team to develop better writing skills. "Improve" means he wants the writing to be better. A concrete example of the difference is that you can hire contractors to edit and publish the team's writing, which wouldn't necessarily make better writers of the members of his team, but it would improve the team's technical writing.
  • mhb 4y ago
    And writing something like improve my team's writing skills is just too many words to countenance?
    • kenjackson 4y ago
      Off the top of my head, I don't know. I don't know what the character limit is for titles. That aside, one isn't clearer than the other -- at least not to me. And clarity is the most important part of technical writing to me. Sometimes jargon helps, sometimes it hurts, sometimes it is neutral.
    • UIUC_06 4y ago
      "improve my team's writing skills" wouldn't sound quite so pretentious.
• euroderf 4y ago
  Upskill usenow doubleplusgood!
• snapcaster 4y ago
  Yes it would have a different meaning. i meant to indicate that i want resources to help my team develop their writing skills as opposed to merely having the writing already existing be better