Writing, narrative, clarity, and interpersonal exchange.
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Commander's intent is a short statement of why an operation is happening and what the end state should be, so people can adapt when the plan fails.
The principle of charity is the rule of reading a statement or argument in its most rational form, so you answer what the speaker meant and not a weaker version.
A demonstration is communicating by performing an activity in front of an audience, so they can see how it is done instead of only hearing it described.
A narrative is a structured account of connected events in time order, in which a person with goals meets something that breaks what was expected, used to communicate and persuade.
Common ground is the knowledge and assumptions that people share and know they share, which speakers rely on and build up by checking they were understood.
Curse of knowledge is the difficulty an informed person has imagining what someone else does not already know.
The state of being so absorbed in a story that imagery, emotion and attention all follow it, which lowers the reader's resistance to its claims.
The cooperative principle is Paul Grice's idea that speakers normally contribute what a conversation needs, so listeners can work out meaning that the words do not state.
Active voice is a sentence structure in which the subject performs the verb's action, as in "The team shipped the update," rather than receiving it, as in "The update was shipped by the team."
