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Hey,
I am writing a short blurb to describe my strengths. I'm having trouble with choosing strong adjectives so I decided to ask for help on teamliquid, a gaming forum -_-
Basically, does anyone know how to word these better than just using excellent, outstanding, strong, good?
Outstanding research skills
Excellent time management skills
Strong work ethic
passion for thinking critically about my research
good mentoring and leadership skills
I was a TA so I am a caring towards other people
I feel like I sound so generic when I try to put these things together. Anyone have any advice? Or else I'll just use thesaurus.com 
 
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it's an exercise in banality. you're asking the impossible
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I think part of the problem is splitting the ideas up like this. I would attempt to put some of the like traits together.
e.g.
Exemplary research skills back by a strong (continuous, engaged) work ethic.
My TA experience has given me a great background in mentoring, leadership and compassion for others work
On top of this, my love of research and critical thought exploration has produced a strong work ethic in me professionally and personally.
Hope that makes sense, I'd love to chat with you more =D
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On October 25 2014 03:19 SourApplez wrote:
I think part of the problem is splitting the ideas up like this. I would attempt to put some of the like traits together.
e.g.
Exemplary research skills back by a strong (continuous, engaged) work ethic.
My TA experience has given me a great background in mentoring, leadership and compassion for others work
On top of this, my love of research and critical thought exploration has produced a strong work ethic in me professionally and personally.
Hope that makes sense, I'd love to chat with you more =D
Wow that sounds immensely better and you probably only put a little thought in it 
I hate doing these kind of things because I have trouble making it flow nicely. Thanks I will actually use some of this 
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adjectives dont matter IMO. what matters is that you give examples or demonstration of how u have "research skills" or "critical thinking skills". you wont sound generic and you wont sound like a prick
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On October 25 2014 03:19 SourApplez wrote:
I think part of the problem is splitting the ideas up like this. I would attempt to put some of the like traits together.
e.g.
Exemplary research skills back by a strong (continuous, engaged) work ethic.
My TA experience has given me a great background in mentoring, leadership and compassion for others work
On top of this, my love of research and critical thought exploration has produced a strong work ethic in me professionally and personally.
Hope that makes sense, I'd love to chat with you more =D
this isn't good enough.
in what way do you have research skills?
how did you demonstrate work ethic?
in what regard did you mentor someone? how did you experience compassion?
in what way do you have a professional and personal work ethic via your love of whatever the fuck research + critical thought exploration is supposed to mean??????
you will sound like a tard if you write with bullshit adjectives and not with real world, straight-talking examples and evidence
you might even find that if you write out your examples then the descriptive adjective shit isn't even required; your examples are self-evidencing/self-explanatory. "As part of my TA I spent an hour each week doing a personal mentoring session with a student suffering from depression." <- by itself this is a pretty strong statement. you don't NECESSARILY need to retard it up by adding a load of obvious shit or fancy shit.
just say what you done, if you done something half-decent.
if you treat your reader as having similar IQ as yourself, then for every excessive word you use, you should realise that you sound like a dick
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You can use "fucking" as an adjective, and you should, wherever there is a word you need to insert into a sentence, but cannot recall the exact word, or don't know how to accurately describe what you are writing, placing "fucking" into a sentence is always the right thing to do, and it adds some edgy flare to your writing.
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On October 25 2014 08:53 ninazerg wrote:
You can use "fucking" as an adjective, and you should, wherever there is a word you need to insert into a sentence, but cannot recall the exact word, or don't know how to accurately describe what you are writing, placing "fucking" into a sentence is always the right thing to do, and it adds some edgy flare to your writing.
bonus if you use capitals
swell also works in place of any of those terms.
also yeah, for cover letters/resumes (or in any writing really) showing is way more important than using stupid buzz words
for example, 'good mentoring skills' will not resonate as well as 'mentored lantz, helping him to not sound like a self important recent grad asshat, and helped him get a job'
excellent time management skills would be better served as something like 'manged professor's schedule for five different courses and organized his private tutoring hours'
you get the point
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When writing a resume, saying things like outstanding, excellent etc are terrible. Don't use vague adjectives; instead, tell them exactly what you did and the tangible achievements you've had. Here are my suggested corrections
Outstanding research skills
Change to -> Published paper on [topic] in [reputable journal] (list your better publications)
Excellent time management skills
Change to -> Handled so and so responsibilities concurrently
Strong work ethic
(Don't know how you are going to prove it)
passion for thinking critically about my research
Give example of how you used critical thinking to improve your research
For example -> Developed blah blah new methodology of conducting whatever study
good mentoring and leadership skills
Change to -> Led a group of X number of people to accomplish whatever task successfully
-> Mentored X number of students to do whatever stuff
I was a TA so I am a caring towards other people
Change to -> Rated an average of 4.5/5 by students (if your school has a rating system for TAs)
Most importantly, remember that meaningless adjectives are for mediocre people who have done nothing useful and want to embellish their resumes. Don't be one of them; state your achievements concretely, and let yourself be judged by that.
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
verbs and noun, not adjectives and adverbs
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EPT
