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  2. Center of excellence - Wikipedia

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    A center of excellence (COE or CoE), also called an excellence center, is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership, best practices, research, support, or training for a focus area. Due to its broad usage and vague legal precedent, a "center of excellence", in one context, may have completely different characteristics from ...

  3. Rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    Painting depicting a lecture in a knight academy, painted by Pieter Isaacsz or Reinhold Timm for Rosenborg Castle as part of a series of seven paintings depicting the seven independent arts. This painting illustrates rhetoric. Jesus was a preacher in 1st-century Judea. Rhetoric (/ ˈrɛtərɪk /) is the art of persuasion.

  4. Excellency - Wikipedia

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    Excellency is an honorific style given to certain high-level officers of a sovereign state, officials of an international organization, or members of an aristocracy. Once entitled to the title "Excellency", the holder usually retains the right to that courtesy throughout their lifetime, [1] although in some cases the title is attached to a ...

  5. Hospitality - Wikipedia

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    Hospitality is also the way people treat others, for example in the service of welcoming and receiving guests in hotels. Hospitality plays a role in augmenting or decreasing the volume of sales of an organization. Hospitality ethics is a discipline that studies this usage of hospitality.

  6. Salutation - Wikipedia

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    Salutation. A salutation is a greeting used in a letter or other communication. Salutations can be formal or informal. The most common form of salutation in an English letter includes the recipient's given name or title. For each style of salutation there is an accompanying style of complimentary close, known as valediction.

  7. Curate's egg - Wikipedia

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    A " curate's egg " is something described as partly bad and partly good. In its original usage, it referred to something that is obviously and entirely bad, but is described out of politeness as nonetheless having good features that redeem it. [1][2] This meaning has been largely supplanted by its less ironic modern usage, which refers to ...

  8. Public speaking - Wikipedia

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    Persuasion is a derived term from the Latin word "persuadere." [10] Persuasive speaking aims to change the audience's beliefs and is commonly used in political debates as a means of convincement. Leaders use such public forums in an attempt to persuade their audience, whether they be the general public or government officials. [10]

  9. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Essay. An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization ...