Improving Clarity in Decision Statements

Medium Expression Of Ideas Effective Language Use

Read the following sentence and choose the option that best improves its clarity and effectiveness:

The committee made a decision that the proposal should be rejected on the grounds of insufficient data which was not very persuasive.

The committee decided to reject the proposal due to the lack of persuasive data.

The committee concluded that the proposal should not be accepted since it lacked a persuasive degree of data.

The rejection of the proposal by the committee was based on it being not persuasive enough because of insufficient data.

The committee made a decision to not accept the proposal based on data that was insufficiently persuasive.

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