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[...]... family to support, there’s no reason to compromise your integrity to keep a job The Perfect Solution to the He or She Problem I just used he in the preceding paragraph instead of he or she, and I will continue to do so throughout the rest of the book Here’s why: The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun Using the masculine pronoun as the default... consist, or compose The word comprise is distinct from the alternatives in that it refers to the components of something from the point of view of the whole: the whole comprises the parts So the United States comprises fifty states But you can also choose to say that the whole consists of the parts, the whole is composed of the parts, or the whole is constituted of the parts What you want to avoid is writing... going to have to learn to push yourself How do you do that? Having a curmudgeon for a boss is a good way to jump-start the process Ultimately, you have to acquire a mind-set If you’ve been told to get information on some problem, you’ve got to want to get all the information you can possibly find on that problem If you’ve had to do some calculations in the course of an assignment, you’ve got to want to. .. that would open up entirely new topics in the chapter I was writing How did she do it? I don’t know the details, but I’m sure it consisted of going from the easy stuff—articles in the major technical journals to the sources they used, then going to that second tier and searching out the sources they used That’s the way it’s done—unravel that sock all the way down to the last thread She had simply done... Unless you’re in the hard sciences, the process of writing is your most valuable single tool for developing better ideas The process of writing is the dominant source of intellectual creativity 14 Putting together your basic writing toolkit Before the writing process can do these great things, you need to put together your toolkit A few resources must always be within reach when you write The Elements... but they aren’t your only options Don’t underestimate the decency of the other people in your workplace, including the curmudgeons Next we come to jerks who are merely unpleasant They are crude, controlling, ill-tempered, or otherwise offensive How you react depends on how good they are professionally When they are very good at doing something that you want to become good at, I’d stay on the job The. .. more than one person Begs the question used to mean raises the question, evades the question, or makes you wonder To beg the question means to assume as true the thing that you are trying to prove to make an unsupported claim with circular reasoning The tip-off is that a person who has begged the question has in effect repeated himself A classic example used to illustrate begging the question is “Opium...other end of the phone who calls you by your first name I have had parents introduce me to their sixyear-old with the words “This is Charles, ” requiring me to choke back an overwhelming urge to pat the little one on the head and say, “But you may call me Sir.” I blame this misbegotten use of first names on the baby boomers Frightened of being grown-ups since they were in college, they have... who learned how to do something by teaching it Meanwhile, you can do something about the sins of obliviousness that are fed by the It’s All About Me Syndrome You’re supposed to notice that somebody’s trying to get past you in the hall, that others nearby are trying to work, that the woman who just got on the subway car is pregnant and needs a place to sit, and take the initiative to do the right thing... know for a fact that they use it freely themselves A friend of mine who runs a large business was recently told that an applicant for an entry-level position had used the f-word twice in the job interview The applicant didn’t get the job But my friend vehemently expressed his regret that he hadn’t personally been present to terminate the interview the moment the word first came out of the applicant’s mouth . just the telemarketer on the other end of the phone who calls you by your first name. I have had parents introduce me to their six- year-old with the words “This is Charles, ” requiring me to choke. 2014 650.1—dc23 2013045110 ISBN 97 8-0 -8 04 1-4 14 4-4 eBook ISBN 97 8-0 -8 04 1-4 14 5-1 v3.1 To Bennett, Anna, Sarawan, and Narisara, who have heard all of this repeatedly. CONTENTS Cover Other Books by This Author Title. person. A s The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead moves from success in the workplace into the deeper waters of success in living, you will find the occasional bromide, because some of the clichés you’ve