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    Written communication has helped humans inform, collaborate, and share knowledge for hundreds of years. Writing is a lifelong skill that allows people to communicate effectively in both personal and professional contexts through emails, memos, reports, and other documents. How people write represents who they are and leaves a lasting record even after death. To improve writing skills, people should read widely, practice writing, target their intended audience, and learn from feedback on their writing. Regular writing brings enjoyment and a sense of accomplishment when the message is clearly communicated.

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    Written communication has helped humans inform, collaborate, and share knowledge for hundreds of years. Writing is a lifelong skill that allows people to communicate effectively in both personal and professional contexts through emails, memos, reports, and other documents. How people write represents who they are and leaves a lasting record even after death. To improve writing skills, people should read widely, practice writing, target their intended audience, and learn from feedback on their writing. Regular writing brings enjoyment and a sense of accomplishment when the message is clearly communicated.

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    Written communication has helped humans inform, collaborate, and share knowledge for hundreds of years. Writing is a lifelong skill that allows people to communicate effectively in both personal and professional contexts through emails, memos, reports, and other documents. How people write represents who they are and leaves a lasting record even after death. To improve writing skills, people should read widely, practice writing, target their intended audience, and learn from feedback on their writing. Regular writing brings enjoyment and a sense of accomplishment when the message is clearly communicated.

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    10 October 2020

    The Importance of Writing Skills

    Satya Brink

    Written communication is an exceptional characteristic of the human species. Over


    hundreds of years, writing has helped individuals to inform, collaborate and alert other,
    while societies benefitted from written history, culture and knowledge. In our time, how
    you successfully use the gift of writing, depends on you.

    Writing is a life skill, not only an essential job-related skill, because it is often the basis
    upon which others judge your learning, your values, your ideas and your contribution to
    society. Regardless of your career or occupation, everyone has to write to communicate
    with others, whether it is a friendly email, a formal business memo, a report, a job
    application, a press release or a message of condolence. Your writing skills determine if
    you receive the desired reaction from your reader. Did you inform, persuade, calm or
    entertain as you hoped? The effectiveness of your communication can affect your daily life
    and your life course outcomes. So, miscommunication can have serious consequences
    and unintended effects.

    Writing is personal. It represents us when we are absent in space and in time. Writing
    expresses who we are, even after our life time. It makes our knowledge, our personal
    aspirations and our work for the future visible to others. Writing is the means to explain our
    ideas to ourselves and to others while preserving our personal experiences and our
    memories. No one else can do it for you. In this way, writing connects you with yourself.
    Writing is not fleeting; it is permanent. It is a record of what you wished to communicate at
    a point in time.

    Writing enables you to reach a much larger audience, in many places and over time. Keep
    this in mind, if you want an on-line presence. If writing was judiciously planned,
    thoughtfully written and designed for the intended readers, it lives on in the minds of those
    who read it. If you are reading this and it made sense to you, it means that the writer
    directed the message to you.

    How writing helps you to develop


    To write well, you must organize your thoughts, explain your arguments, present your
    supporting evidence and lead your reader to a shared conclusion. If the reader disagrees,
    he or she should be able to find each of your arguments for rebuttal. Writing enables you
    to vividly recall past events, describe a special experience or sell a vision. You rely on
    critical thought in your conceptualization, on clear articulation through choice of words and
    structure and on effective sharing of information by writing for the reader, not just yourself.
    Writing harnesses the transformative power of the written word to improve your life and to
    change the world around you.

    Effective writing

    Good writing targets the reading audience. It is adapted to the medium: Digital or print?
    Formal or informal? Light or serious? The task is accomplished if the message is
    communicated clearly but it is effective, if it is remembered. Skilled writing produces a
    response in the reader by stimulating thought, evoking an emotion and stirring to action. It
    is the reason you read a favourite book a second time.

    Improve writing skills

    Thankfully, writing is a skill which can be learned like any other. Furthermore, the learned
    skill will serve you all your life.

     Read widely. Reading a variety of material will help to grow your vocabulary and
    introduce you to different styles of expression. If you read an unfamiliar word, look
    it up. Your reading vocabulary is larger than your written one, but you can work to
    reduce the gap between them by using the new words you learn in your writing.
     Capture your ideas in writing. This requires strategic thinking in order to sharpen
    your focus to make ideas clearly understood.
     Practice. The more you write, the easier it will be to develop a personal style that is
    recognizable. Like most skills, practice will make writing easier and more effective.
     Target your communication. Keep your reader in mind when writing. Careful
    choice of appropriate words and selection of the right length of communication will
    help to discipline your writing.
     Rely on good writing practices. Always read what you have written before sending
    it to others. A good trick is to read your work aloud, when many of its shortcoming
    become evident. Correct your spelling and grammatical errors. Check for
    organization of ideas, sentence structure and logic flow in paragraphs. Will your
    readers understand your message and respond the way you wish? Will you be
    happy with your writing if you read it much later?
     Examine examples. Reading the Curriculum vitae of others can show you the best
    way to showcase your own skills and job experiences.
     Benefit from responses and feedback. Readers responses provide valuable
    lessons for future writing. Questions can show you where the message was not
    clear. Thank readers when they quote you, repeat your message or share your
    writing with others.

    Remember that the process of writing should be enjoyable. Writing is serious business
    when its impact is important. But write also for fun, taking pleasure in a turn of phrase, a
    touch of humour and word play. Writing skills will then come naturally to you. When you
    write your name under what you wrote, you should experience a feeling of
    accomplishment.

    Satya Brink is currently an international consultant, specializing in Educational Research,


    Policy Analyses and Strategic Policy Advice. She was the director of the National
    Learning Policy Research team of the Canadian Government (2003-2010). She was also
    the co-chair of the OECD Governing Board for PIAAC, also known as the Survey of Adult
    skills. She is widely published and she has presented research papers and key note
    addresses to international academic, government and professional audiences in five
    continents.
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