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@@ -408,13 +408,13 @@ Avoiding AI patterns is only half the job. Sterile, voiceless writing is just as
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**Words to watch:** third-party, cross-functional, client-facing, data-driven, decision-making, well-known, high-quality, real-time, long-term, end-to-end
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-**Problem:** AI hyphenates common word pairs with perfect consistency. Humans rarely hyphenate these uniformly, and when they do, it's inconsistent. Less common or technical compound modifiers are fine to hyphenate.
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+**Problem:** AI hyphenates these uniformly, including in predicate position (`the report is high-quality`). Humans hyphenate inconsistently — typically only when the compound is attributive (`a high-quality report`) and often dropping the hyphen otherwise (`the report is high quality`). Keep attributive-position hyphens; drop them when the compound follows the noun.
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**Before:**
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-> The cross-functional team delivered a high-quality, data-driven report on our client-facing tools. Their decision-making process was well-known for being thorough and detail-oriented.
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+> The cross-functional team delivered a high-quality, data-driven report. The team is cross-functional, the report is high-quality, and the methodology is data-driven.
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**After:**
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-> The cross functional team delivered a high quality, data driven report on our client facing tools. Their decision making process was known for being thorough and detail oriented.
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+> The cross-functional team delivered a high-quality, data-driven report. The team is cross functional, the report is high quality, and the methodology is data driven.
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### 27. Persuasive Authority Tropes
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Siqi Chen