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Written Communication Assignment

Writing skills are essential for effective communication in the workplace. Excellent writing abilities allow employees to precisely communicate messages, ideas, and opinions through various written documents like emails, reports, and memos. Good writing skills demonstrate an employee's professionalism and abilities, help with record keeping, boost confidence, and benefit one's career advancement. Regardless of a job's writing requirements, writing skills are important for making a good impression and proving one's capabilities.

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Written Communication Assignment

Writing skills are essential for effective communication in the workplace. Excellent writing abilities allow employees to precisely communicate messages, ideas, and opinions through various written documents like emails, reports, and memos. Good writing skills demonstrate an employee's professionalism and abilities, help with record keeping, boost confidence, and benefit one's career advancement. Regardless of a job's writing requirements, writing skills are important for making a good impression and proving one's capabilities.

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1.

Why Writing Skills are Important

Writing skills are an essential element of communication. Excellent


writing skills enable you to communicate your message with precision,
correctness, exactness, sureness, efficiency, and accuracy and cure to a
greatly wider audience than within face-to-face or phone
communications, communication in all workplaces employees is
constantly drafting letters, emails, memos, reports, statements,
announcements, observations, records, reminders, documents,
accounts, memorandums, letters, and reports. All of these need
excellent writing abilities so that people are capable to communicate
their opinions, thoughts, and ideas effectively.

You might be asked upon to draft a report, project or approach at


work; write a present application or papers statement within
a volunteering position; or you may favor expressing your ideas online
via a blog. And, of course, a well-written CV or résumé with no spelling
or grammatical errors is essential if you require a fresh job.

1. Being Professional: Excellent writing skills are supreme


particularly when the job at hand requires a plenty of writing.
For example, in the situation of writers, reporters, and
somebody in the public relations division. When someone is
engaged to write, possessing outstanding writing abilities is a
necessity for the work.
However, now, more jobs demand excellent writing skills than ever
since. In line for an employee to get an understanding and be
understood in his/her emails or news, then he/she must
understand how to write in a way that is well known and with his/her
ideas definitely established.

2. When Communicating: In all the workplaces, employees are


continually writing letters, emails, memoranda, messages, and
statements. All of these need excellent writing abilities so that
individuals become able to communicate their thoughts and opinions
effectively. Good writing skills enable you to communicate a word with
accuracy and efficiency and can lead to a wider audience related to
face-to-face communication.

Weak writing skills, on the other hand, particularly where


communication with the administration is involved, can be a red
standard that an employee is not suitable enough for management jobs
and as such can be a barrier to development. Further, individuals with
inadequate writing skills seem to have a weaker level of capacity,
knowledge and, ability.

3. Trustworthiness in an Employee: Workers with superior


writing skills are usually observed as being a warm property.
Businesses throughout the world are serving substantial quantities of
capital to encourage and provide pieces of training to their employees
and enhance their writing skills. Assume a situation where you as an
employee download an article or attempt to paraphrase a message
from a co-worker but the email or statement is full of typos and
grammatical mistakes.

It would not only lose a lot of time but also worsen to efficiently
communicate the message. This indicates that the sender was
inexperienced and did not worry to proofread his work. So it is obvious
that writing skills are necessary and required for any worker who
wants to win in their career.

4. Reflections of an Employee to be considered: Good writing


skills unlock doors for various younger employees to be considered for
superior positions. Nevertheless, as essential as these abilities are, it is
further necessary to understand when and when not to fix another
individual. Fixing the incorrect individual can get you in difficulty at
work or even dismissed. Not everybody wants to be changed, and not
all errors are meaningful or notable enough to justify the emendation.

5. Writing Skills Proves your Ability: Despite if your job doesn’t


need a lot of writing, whereby you come over is critical and significant.
A few grammatical or punctual flaws may appear little. But people do
mention. And they manage to remember that those who don’t write
well are less capable and knowledgeable than those who do. Don’t let
anyone drop you because of your inadequate writing skills. A few
minutes of proofreading can enhance the process you observed.
Faultless papers will grant you a cleverer person than an associate
whose job is full of typos.
6. Writing Skills makes you more Prominent: Excellent
influencing, persuasion, and convincing skills support you to inspire
others to accomplish your goals. Teachers assign their students to write
powerful articles, assignments, and essays in order to provide them for
the job market by improving these meaningful skills. If you are
producing taglines and calls-to-action for your organization, you just
need to know how to produce a copy that will inspire the student to
take action. If you are representing an innovative idea that can enhance
a method to your supervisor, you should sound persuasive. Each paper
must express your ideas efficiently.

7. Writing Skills Helps in Record Keeping: Data that is


communicated verbally isn’t stored for delayed. That’s why individuals
write notes of lectures. As students use their notes to write
assignments, you can use your documents in your job. Gathering
information on paper is the genuine process of saving it for times. In
fact, the several specific information that has approached us several
times back was from books.

8. Writing skills Helps in Boosting Professional


confidence: All business records has its plan. You draft a business
proposal to entice investors or get partners. You send emails to contact
possible buyers. You craft a report to fascinate your manager. When
written communication drives a company to another happily finished
project, you grow more positive, convinced, influenced, established,
and inspired. And writing itself becomes simpler.
9. Writing Skills Benefits Your Career: If you are the skilled
business communicator in your department, coworkers will ask you to
for advice in writing, revising and proofreading their writing items
before they go to their executives. Word will get around. If the business
requires someone to compose useful emails, they will ask someone who
writes with precision and correctness. Imagine who they will turn to?
The genuine your writing skills are, the more ability you will be
provided. That’s fabulous for you and your eventual career victory!

Conclusion: Hence Writing Skills are very important whether you are


a student or you are working in any organization, writing skills help
you in every field.

2.THE LANGUAGE OF AN ESSAY


To make sure that your language is appropriate while writing an essay, you should: 

1. Use Clear, Concise Language

Any piece of writing can be made clear and concise by eliminating grammatical errors
and avoiding complex sentences. In case there are complex sentences in your essay,
use appropriate punctuation to separate their different parts and improve readability.
Using active voice instead of passive voice too can contribute to crafting better essays. 

2. Avoid Jargon

Although jargon usage is often inevitable in academic writing, it is better to avoid


unnecessary jargon while writing essays. Using complex language tends to confuse the
reader and can make your essay difficult to understand. The reader may, for instance,
misunderstand the context in which your essay is written. Using simple and plain
language instead will allow the reader to grasp the content and context of your essay,
making it easy to follow.

3. Read up about Homophones


Homophones are words that have the same pronunciation but different meaning and
spelling. And without a good understanding of such words, you may end up confusing
one word with another while writing. For example, you might use “your” while intending
to use “you’re,” which can lead to grammatical errors in your essays. Therefore, it is
necessary to pay attention while using homophones and crosscheck to see if you are
using the right word. 

4. Steer Clear of Direct Translation

If English isn’t your native language, then you must be all-too-familiar with the urge to
use a quote or an idiom from your native language while writing an essay in English.
While it is okay to use English quotes and idioms in essays, it is never a good idea to
directly translate a quote or an idiom from your native language to English and use it in
your essay. Since it is possible to get the translation wrong or incorrectly convey the
context while translating, you’d be better off not using directly translated text. 

5. Understand the Different Levels of Formality

While most academic writing is formal in nature, students are sometimes allowed to use
semi-formal or informal language while writing an essay. It is sometimes okay to use a
little humor in your writing. However, you should refrain from using informal language
and know how much informality is too much. It is better to check with your professor and
the writing guidelines before you begin your essay to avoid having to rewrite it in a more
formal tone. 

6. Avoid Slang and Idioms

As stated before, it is best to use formal or semi-formal language while writing an


academic essay. Since slang and idioms are considered informal language, they are
best avoided altogether. Besides, they can confuse non-native English readers, making
essays difficult to understand. Also, since the relationship between a professor and a
student is mostly formal, it makes little sense to use informal language while writing an
essay. 

7. Use Positive Language

Consider this example to understand the importance of using positive language in your
essays. If you’re asked to write a persuasive essay, then you should know how to use
language that persuades the reader to see your point. Using biased language,
expressing too much skepticism, or adopting an excessively negative stance instead
can make the reader uncomfortable and put them off. Therefore, it is important to use
positive language that is free of negative stereotypes and biases while writing your
essay.

8. Employ a Descriptive Writing Style


Writing experts believe that the “show, don’t tell” writing technique is highly effective
when it comes to any type of writing. Using descriptive language can make your writing
interesting and hook your readers. Besides, sensory details can help a reader
understand a setup or a situation better. For instance, instead of saying: “I was scared
when I saw something move in my basement,” it is better to say “A chill ran down my
spine when a shadowy presence in my basement suddenly caught my attention.” 

Besides these, a few other things you can do to write a great essay are:

 Avoid clichés. 
 Use appropriate verbs. 
 Avoid generalizations.
 Make sure that the transition from one paragraph to the next is smooth. The
sentence at the end of a paragraph and the sentence at the beginning of the next
should be written in a way that the transition isn’t too abrupt. Transition
words and phrases prove to be particularly useful for this.
 Keep in mind that your argument should be logical and use appropriate evidence
wherever necessary. Also, don’t forget to cite your sources. 
 Pay attention to the structure of your essay. Depending on the type of essay you
are writing, the structure of your essay will vary. However, every essay should
have a proper beginning, middle, and end.

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