But why do some people hate writing? I have always had a special relationship with writing in that it has served as a creative outlet and a means of reflection for me for as long as I can remember, but it can be hard work. It takes considerable effort to learn the many rules to write properly and it requires thinking and creativity to properly and effectively express oneself. Now, thankfully, we have many excellent tools to assist students in improving their writing.
Beyond the information already presented and the extrinsic reward of getting better grades, students need to be aware that time and time again being able to write well effective communication comes up as a top needed skill to be employed as expressed by organizations such as Forbes and others Liu, ; Marr, As teachers, professors, and facilitators we must work to incorporate appropriate writing assignments as often as possible in as many ways as possible.
We must always require correct abilities in essay writing, but we need to go beyond that and also ensure our students can write an effective email, a proper text message or Facebook post, do they know the value of journaling, can they appreciate and write a poem?
As expressed at the beginning of this post, writing has many different benefits and students need to know about them so that they can see the relevance of needing to write well so that they can help themselves and improve society as a whole.
What are your thoughts on the need for effective writing? Do you believe it is underrated or overrated?
Why or why not? Kennison, M. 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. 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. 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. Thankfully, writing is a skill which can be learned like any other. Furthermore, the learned skill will serve you all your life. 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. She is widely published and she has presented research papers and key note addresses to international academic, government and professional audiences in five continents. Login or Sign up to join the conversation. Themes Find resources related to specific themes.
Finally, knowing more and understanding more enables you to improve your health and the health of those around you, to work more productively, and to create and preserve wealth.
In addition to benefitting individuals, composition skills benefit groups of people. The more skilled a group becomes at writing, the greater their collective success, since they can communicate more effectively. Literacy among ethnic and national groups results in greater prosperity.
Again, this happens because the ability to read and to write leads to better ideas, increased power, and greater wealth generation and accumulation. In this way literacy supports economic and cultural progress. All modern professionals benefit from good writing. This includes educators, engineers, scientists, technicians, medical professionals, marketing and sales professionals, business executives, business owners, lawyers, politicians, administrators, and military and law enforcement professionals.
In fact, many people say good writing is critically important to their work. Here are examples:. All of the people interviewed see writing as important to their work. Typical comments include:. Law professor Ian Gallacher underscores the importance of writing to the legal profession.
Business consultant Suzanne Bates states that leaders need to take the time to communicate by writing. Kate Sweeney, a year Army officer, highlights the importance of effective writing. McEnerney illuminates the dramatic difference between writing to think and writing to communicate. Al Borowksi, business consultant, stresses the importance of effective business writing. If you can save them time, if you can get results for them, that makes you valuable. A firm that harnesses the power of clear writing is Amazon.
Company executives write, rewrite, read, and discuss memos to understand their business, to facilitate business meetings, and to drive decision making. Start listening at time stamp and stop at Another firm remarkably successful at using writing to advance their mission is the management consulting firm the Arbinger Institute.
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