Jargon

New Product: In introducing a new flavor of iced tea within Starbucks long line of products has the potential to continue to provide Starbuck’s with brand exposure. “In 2012, there were 160 million Americans who drank tea daily in any form, consuming a total of 3.6 billion gallons, or around 80 billion servings of tea in a whole year” (Trefis Team, 2014). Furthermore, within the third quarter of 2014, it was Starbuck’s CEO, Howard Schultz, who was credit with mentioning “that the company…

called discourse communities and they consist of professionals who share a common goal for the public, have specific ways of communicating, “provide information and feedback” to each other, use different ways to expand their goals, possess their own jargon, and is consistently growing by mixing new with the experienced members (Swales 471-3). A discourse community’s goal is to mainly serve the public; by doing so they must be able to communicate with each other whether it is through journals,…

readings and research assignments, I came across the article that Starbucks offers on their company information. This assignment immediately reminded me of that article, as I remembered it being convincingly and concisely worded, without doublespeak, jargon, or euphemisms to muddle their points. This article, found at http://www.starbucks.com/about-us/company-information, is a paragon of good writing. I am no connoisseur of coffee or aficionado of articles, but this article made a real…

Andrew Jackson has always been known to have issues in speaking publically and to have an anger problem, but that never stopped him in climbing his way to the top, from becoming a law man, and holding other jobs in the justice system, to becoming president. Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication, by James C. Curtis is a book about Jackson’s psychological problems that influenced much of his actions and sent him on the path to presidency. This report will review aspects of the book and…

be 1 year, because 3 months would be spent in each city and participants would have to provide their own internet or Facebook resource for themselves. Academic Culture and Discipline: My research question examines how commonly used terminology and jargon specific to Facebook translates to modern language used by teenagers, ranging from age 13-17. The question belongs to the Humanities Academic Culture and the specific discipline I am focusing on is Modern Language. Obstacles: Challenges that may…

and their customers, genuine enthusiasm for what we do. Johnson King 's culture and philosophy is based on a -no nonsense ' approach to public relations that values clarity of thought and honesty of expression above empty promises and meaningless jargon. Few other technology PR agencies can match the breadth of industry knowledge, sector experience and media relationships that Johnson King has built up over the past two decades. Recognized as a leading specialist agency. One of UK 's top 20 IT…

Production Company” to such things as using cliches or slang in an advertisement. (Grebing p.1) On the contrary, using clear language is more effective at getting across your point something that professionals need to be able to do, than the use of jargon. The author put together a somewhat off -topic list of thing that were unprofessional and compared them to using slang in advertisements or in casual business conversation when in reality using clear language can be considered more…

by the technicality of the website jargon. They do try to persuade the primary audience by posting ads such as, “Free access anywhere, anytime. Search 10,000+ drugs, diseases, and procedures” (Medscape, 2016). Mayo Clinic’s primary audience seems to be the lay person. The secondary audience here would be the healthcare provider. They entice the primary audience by making the site very user friendly, providing bullet point information, not a lot of medical jargon, and short and simple…

communication I will discuss the forbiddance of communication in the concentration camps, the importance of communication to unify human beings, the peril of those who could not speak German and the advantage to those who could. I will also examine the Lager jargon that was used in the camps, the isolation of the…

The first concept I learned when enhancing my critical thinking is denotation, which is the specific object, or action that a word points to refers to or indicates (Diestler 2012). An example of denotation would be what the word means like a rose what is it? A rose is a type of flower, the color of the rose can be red, the rose can has a stem, and it has thorns. The word connotation all the images positive, negative, or neutral that are associated with any given denotation by an individual or a…