Avoid Shiny New Toy Syndrome

If you can't appeal to your reader, no composition skill or subject matter expertise means a thing. To do this, understand your reader's goals and how your purpose fits in.

When you review your writing before sending, ask yourself whether your writing helps the reader understand what...

Maybe you finished your class just before that big job interview or performance review, or maybe it’s been a couple of months. Either way, it wouldn’t hurt to give yourself a refresher on what you actually did during the class so you can drop some impressive details in real-time.

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First acknowledge that you cannot do everything at your best. There are things you are good, some not so much, and that's okay. It helps to list down these strengths and weaknesses to improve the weaknesses or just to simply know yourself more.

Also, ask for help. We can never be great alon...