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Robert Louis Stevenson really like this quote because I think it very clearly illustrates the main problem that writing is concerned with -- communication. It is impossible to say anything -- let alone say it well -- if you do not know what you mean. I think that clarity of thought and clarity of words are completely united, and this quote is a very eloquent way of illustrating this connection concisely.
A also think that this quote neatly expresses how difficult it can be to fully communicate a thought. It is even possible that true and full communication is actually impossible. Because words mean slightly different things to each listener and/or reader, communicating exactly what you mean cannot really happen, because there is no totally common language in which to communicate. In literature, perhaps even more than in any other writing, being able to be as precise and exact...
At the same time, literature is always open to interpretation, which kind of exposes the irony of this quote. As important as it is to write what you mean as exactly and precisely as you can, it is impossible to let the reader know what that precise meaning is. The closer you can come to it, however, the closer everyone's interpretations of your writing will be to your intentions. This, I believe, marks the difference between literature that endures and writing that fades away -- when the meaning is too open to interpretation, there is little drive in the work to keep it as a part of the literature and culture that produced it.
Robert Louis Stevenson told wonderful stories, but he was also able to produce great clarity in his work alongside the excitement, and this is what made him great.
Knowledge Management Best Practices in Services Industries The ability to stay on in step with customers' rapidly changing needs is only possible when a company completely commits itself to transforming data into information, while also capturing and using tacit and implicit knowledge. As this analysis will illustrate, data, information and knowledge are multifaceted and have many implications across the lifecycle of a business in general and customers specifically. Concentrating on how
Use of single version of the truth and single information Balanced set of strategic metrics (Financial and non-financial). New methods of cost accounting (ABC, Target Costing). Internal vs. External Focus (Benchmarking and Self-Assessment). Process Management and Measures (value delivery). Stakeholder value measures Uniform set of measures Causal relationships between measures across all levels. Source: Lieberman; (1994; et.al.). Automotive Industry Analysis Entering 2007 it is clear that Japanese firms, lead by Toyota, will be at parity with and potentially surpass the
In addition to serving as the catalyst of greater acceleration of the Five C. Model, Web 2.0 design requirements are making knowledge management more closely align with the precise needs of users. This is significant as a development in knowledge management systems, as in previous-generation architectures this type of alignment would take multiple iterations, or changes; to a given knowledge management system to achieve the level of alignment of
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6) Doiron, R. (1994). Using Nonfiction in a Read Aloud Program: Letting the Facts Speak for Themselves. The Reading Teacher, 47(8), 616-624. This article challenges the pervasive role that fiction has played in read-aloud programs and develops a rationale for including nonfiction. It has a 20-item Annotated Bibliography of nonfiction read-aloud texts. 7) Mountain, L. 2005. Rooting out meaning: more morphemic analysis for primary pupils. Reading Teacher, Vol. 58(8): 742-749. The research on morphemic
Patients in hospitals often complain of pain regardless of the diagnosis. Several activities in a patient's life contribute to pain. Some of the activities include amount of sleep, daily chores and quality of life (Alaloul, Williams, Myers, Jones, & Logdson, 2015). While health care expenses have increased significantly over the years, there have been great improvements in increasing both family and patient involvement in medical care. Hourly care is one