The New York Times article, “What Corporate America Can’t Build: a Sentence” takes a look at the writing skills of some of the most educated people in America. The billions of dollars a year being spent on writing work shops to educate professionals in America beg the question, why are the college graduates at the big companies in America not already masters of communication through writing? Another question being asked is what is being referred to when someone speaks of students writing poorly. We need to examine these questions because there are tons of reasons why being an excellent writer is one of the most important skills to have in the modern business world. When a company hires a student after graduation they are expecting the student to come into their workplace with a very solid education that will allow them to excel. Unfortunately many companies are finding that some college graduates are coming to then unprepared in certain areas. One of the most common areas companies are finding college graduates lacking skill is in writing. Communication is vital for the successfulness of a company. The two most common ways of communication are through speech or writing. So with writing being such a key part to the successfulness of a business, companies are now having to fork over outrageous amounts of money annually to fund writing workshops. The high price for a college education in America ought to provide a student with a more then sufficient amount of knowledge on how to write. At some point writing has been put on the back burner of University leaders and professors. When some professors start having trouble packing all the education requirements for a certain major in four years they let some subject slip. Unfortunately it seems writing has been a very popular subject to be done away with. Now leaders in the corporate America world have to deal with the effects of a lost focus on writing. This lost focus on writing causes workers to have a variety of issues when it comes to putting together e-mails, presentations, letters, and many more vital pieces of communication in business. One major issue is a lack of getting to the point. When it comes to business time is money. A boss is looking for you to be straight and to the point. A sentence needs to get its point across in the least words possible. For instance, if you were writing an e-mail that said, “I double checked my calendar and I am glad to inform you that I am free to attend the meeting on Saturday” you could instead be much more efficient and only say, “I am available to meet Saturday.” Both sentences get the same point across, but one gets the point across without the hassle of reading through pointless words or phrases. Another big issue bosses are having is with workers use of punctuation. Anything written for work should be as formal as possible. Informality can be caused by a few things such as excessive use of exclamation points or question marks, incorrect use of commas or semi colons, and even misspelled words. Being able to write well is not an incredibly difficult task. Good writing takes a combination of knowledge and practice. One way to achieve brilliant writing is to spend a lot of time reading books written by highly acclaimed authors. The best people to learn how to write from are the people in our world who are solely paid to write. Practice in good writing mostly comes from our time spent in high school in college. During both of these time periods we learn that good writing has a few qualities. First,
Writing is a very general subject, and most claim to be good at it. However, most cannot answer the question of what exactly qualifies a piece of writing as good. At first glance it seems like a fairly simple question to answer, but rather when you think about it it’s fairly complicated to answer. There are so many different kinds of writing in this world and all of them can be considered “good” based on whoever is reading and/or writing them, due to the fact that there is no exact formula for writing…
Writing is a tool that people use to express their thoughts and ideas. “Good” writing consists of being informative, persuasive and analytical. In order to compose a “good” piece of writing, the author should include interesting and important main ideas, effective organization that creates a logical flow, and correct word choice and mechanics. Ideas are the reasons why authors write. They are compassionate about their thoughts and, in turn, hope that the audience will feel the same importance…
smart or experienced you are, essays will always be a challenge for any and everybody. After evaluating this essay I noticed a few errors but overall pretty good. The first thing I noticed is that the beginning paragraph contained too much commentary and not enough facts. Also the thesis could use a little work but is suitable. But he did do a good job explaining the situations that occurred during the story. One thing I noticed right away was that the writer cited his work at the bottom, which was…
People are usually having question of how to write a good paper. There are a lot of chances for us to write a paper, being able to write a good paper could be really helpful for us, either on academic and career. There are four elements that could help us to write a good paper; appropriate style, clear and expressive thinking, originality, and good presentation. If we use it when we are writing a paper, the paper will be greatly improved. Writing a paper with appropriate style is important. Using…
Adam Milliet 8 December 2014 Good vs. Bad Being proposed with the question of what is good writing and what is bad writing threw me off guard. This question could be answered in many different ways, some simpler than others. Writing has little to do with skill, but more with perseverance and the person that it comes from. Simply put, good writers keep going while bad writers seem to quit at the sign of a road block. There is no real definition of what good writing can be. It can be seen differently…
Academic writing is a vital skill for university student. Analyse the necessary elements of successful academic writing Course:Academic writing Teacher: Gray Sandra Student Name:Jiang Chu Student Number:JIACP1304 Word count:809 Academic writing currently has been significant part of the study. According to Murray and Rowena (2006) academic writing is that set of conventions people see in a thesis or a published paper in disciplines, a definition that becomes more precise once people…
Course: Composition 2 Date: Sep 4, 2013 Response letter on Writing Freely “ All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.”(Macrorie 9). In the essay, the author talks about why some people cannot be a good writer. It is because of people forget how to tell the truth in their writings. Children usually speak and write honestly most of the time, but adults are just not quite familiar with writing honestly in their writings. “Part of growing up is learning to tell lies, big and little…
English 102 6 December 2013 The Experience Writing essay is not an easy task for someone with English as a second language. There are many requirements and techniques to write a good essay by learning it from an English course. Combining the writing tutorial course and introductory writing, it definitely helps in learning how to write a proper essay. My writing skill has greatly improved since the start of the semester by taking both introductory writing and writing tutorial, and I learn about different…
Professor Hall Why Is Writing An Important Skill? If you were to walk into a fifth-graders English classroom, it would be a common thing to hear them say “when am I ever going to need this in my life?” but the truth is that writing skills play a very important role in communications in those around us. Good writing skills are also a larger part in your professional life. Writing is one of the important ways of expressing your thoughts, communication ideas and views with others. Writing skills can be…
What is writing to me? Some time ago, there was a TV program in Korea that surveys students who go to Harvard University. The topic was ‘which ability do you want to improve most?’ The result was very interesting. I would think the answer is IT knowledge or leadership. Unexpectedly, the answer was ‘writing ability’. At that time, I thought that it is very strange because the students who are called geniuses chose writing ability as the first thing that they want to improve most, not advanced technology…