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Understand Context

Observe and investigate the environment and history of a place in intimate detail. Whilst this method demands time it yields an informed response from you by default. This method culminates opportunities for constructive resolve and reason. Avoid quixotic investigation - whilst recording your (subjective) perception of place is important, the fundamental logistics should be driving objective observation. Search for novelties - perhaps there are those that can provide feedback and direction through experience. Remember to test the connections. Exploring the core of your posed question(s) should be a theoretical and physical practice in unison.

Do not submit to gross simplification

Be mindful; if requested to reduce the scope of your work and you think it will yield gross simplification, do not submit, be mindful that ‘riddles’ and ‘poetry’ have their place and rather find a method of delivery that captures the essence of the information in a word, a sentence, an equation, a graph, a diagram, an image, a film, a sculptural object, an instrument or a device and so forth. 

Intellectual Honesty

Note: whilst this applies to other factors and scenarios, the context of this article is Communication.   When you present, debate or have a conversation you should utilise clear and articulate vocabulary to describe the complexity of the subject matter (aim to maintain proper grammar, logic and rhetoric). Reserve the sophisticated and measured "geek" lexicon for the technical paper as the proven and objective evidence you base your statements on. Attach the researched - observable data to an appendix. This will reflect your ability to conceive, identify and evaluate fundamental factors of each particular subject. This will help you hone your imaginative and intellectual tools of reason and logic.  Remember; ' simple ' not ‘ simplistic ’...