Can good writing lead you to the freedom you desire?

Yes, the marketplace is looking for people with great communication skills and critical thinking skills. If you improve your writing skills, you will get a great grade on that writing assignment.  That will lead to a great grade in your course which will lead to a four-year degree or a graduate degree.

“The secret to communication — whether one-on-one, in a small group, to an audience, or in a meeting —

… is connecting. If you can connect with people, you can communicate with people. This is something I learned early in my career, and it has helped me as a husband, father, friend, communicator, and leader. I cannot image what my life and my career might have looked like had I not learned how to connect.”

John Maxwell

Int’l. Leadership Consultant and Speaker

Do you want to connect with people?  Do you want them to want to write to you, talk with you and do business with you?  It all starts with good communication.

Your writing reveals so much about you and your communication skills. Your writing tells the reader about your educational background, the pride you take in your work and what you know about the subject.

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Electronic communications provides a way to practice your skills

There are so many ways to communicate electronically today that you have many chances during a day to practice your writing.  Your e-mails should be written well, revealing your personality to the reader as well as containing information.  If you write well, people will like you and will come to trust what you say in your writing.

You become a value to any company if you have excellent communication skills. These are verbal and written skills and your verbal skill comes from how much you have read, making you an interesting conversationalist.  If you speak well, you will write well.  Then, all you need to do is practice, honing your skills.

Companies with employees who struggle in communication will fall further and further behind.

A career in Mass Communications can take a person throughout every sector of the market. Communications companies need writers, speakers, actors, designers, technicians and others to bring their message to the world. People working in this field need to get comfortable working with advancing technologies and figuring out how to persuade people.

John Hewitt

Ehow Contributing Writer

Communication Model

Message

Sender                                                                                    Receiver

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Marketplace is looking for critical thinkers and good researchers.

Is your correspondence free of any errors? In this day of computers with spell and grammar check, it is so easy to let your writing skills lapse. The computer scans the correct spelling of a word, but it is a homonym with the wrong meaning for your sentence. This error shows the reader that either you don’t know the difference or you’re too lazy to check and edit.

Is your writing full of words that people don’t understand? Many times, you are so rushed to compose a business document that you use easy methods to get it done. The result is business documents are often filled with buzzwords, cryptic dialogue and outdated phrases. Readers won’t say that they don’t understand what you are writing, but will note not to use your business services. Keep your writing simple and current. Writing styles are like fashion and have indeed changed over the years. You must keep up with today’s business practices and expectations, but beware of certain crutches such as buzzwords, industry jargon and cliches. Buzzwords are trendy terms and expressions that sometimes mean nothing, but seem impressive. “Like fertilizer, buzzwords are spread generously over documents in hope that brilliant ideas will miraculously take root. Unfortunately, ideas don’t grow in manure,” describes Will Stockdell, a professional Internet writer. You want to make sure that everyone understands your written ideas.

The last thing you want to do is to give the impression that your writing is too formal or outdated. A more direct way of writing has replaced some standard business phrases. Examples of this are “As per your request” now becomes “As you requested” or “Enclosed please find ” now becomes “I am enclosing.” Also, the previous impersonal style of business writing that avoided the use of “I” has been changed to use a limited amount of “I” to give directness and warmth.

How often have you typed away what you wanted to say, rather than what you needed to write? Slipping into abbreviated dialogue is so easy to do instead of expressing complete thoughts in a sentence. Perhaps, because we are a telephone-oriented society, the keyboard simply becomes an extension of our phone voice and frequently incomplete phrases dominate a message. Readers may think that this writing also indicates your incomplete logic and business services.

Do you use correct English? As far as incorrect punctuation, awkward sentences and bad grammar, you need to examine your writing skills and take these steps to improve them:

1. Audit your business writing yourself and try to learn from your mistakes. Use your computer grammar tools, but double-check with a dictionary or grammar book.

2. Find someone who can edit your material.

3. Hire employees for writing skills. In this way, you will have someone around to edit or write material for you.

4. Read. Reading will improve your writing skills. Keep on hand business documents that you admire.

5. Practice. Don’t just pick up the phone to communicate; get in the habit of expressing your ideas in letters or e-mail.

6. Seek professional resources. Consult books like Gloria Pincu’s Bull’s Eye Business Writing: 10 Easy Guides for Getting to Your Writing Target. Search the Internet. Seek training courses.

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  1. A review of research on the structure of writing processes shows that writing is goal directed, that goals are hierarchically organized, and that writers use 3 major processes—planning, sentence generation, and revision. The planning process is outlined in terms of the representation of knowledge, the source of the writing plan, and the use of strategic knowledge. Differences between average and expert writers in the sentence generation process are noted, and the nature of the revision process is described in terms of experts’ ability to attend to global problems, writers’ difficulty in detecting faults in their own text, the cues that initiate revision, and the detection and diagnosis of text problems. The importance of understanding the cognitive processes underlying writing and the value of a process-oriented approach to instruction are emphasized. (42 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)