IMMEDIATE RELEASE

College Park, MD -July 22, 2010- On July 21, 2010, Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal) welcomed Dr. David Engel to participate in its Brown Bag Series. Dr. Engel, conducting his third such event with Optimal, discussed the writing and preparation elements necessary to create thorough and well-written expository documents. Dr. Engel stressed writing required a clear, unambiguous, efficient transfer of meaning, while emphasizing the paragraph as the thought unit requiring particular attention. Dr. Engel also encouraged:

• Using an outline to order one's thoughts (using the “rule of 3’s”);
• Careful preparation and attention to a paragraph's topic sentence;
• Staying on topic within a paragraph;
• Grouping ideas;
• Placing topics in a logical order;
• Checking to make sure that material adheres to the outline; and
• Revising the outline as the writing progresses.

Currently, Dr. Engel serves as a Senior Editor for Optimal. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from Cornell University in 2003 and has worked with Optimal since 2007.

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Founded in 2000, Optimal Solutions Group, LLC is a non-partisan public policy research firm dedicated to rigorous and evidence-based research. Optimal's clients are local, state, and federal governments; non-governmental organizations; and corporations and foundations. Located in the M Square Research Park, Optimal has grown quickly by building on a reputation of exceptional services and products. Our clients benefit from our innovations, value, and efficiency, which we have been able to establish through a robust technology-based infrastructure, uncompromising and documented quality-control procedures, and effective employee recruitment techniques. Optimal has four research centers: health, education, workforce development, and housing.

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