Are Writing Deficiencies Creating A Lost Generation Of Business Writers?

Poor writing skills have become a major problem in corporate America. Many of today's employers say that good writing skills are essential not only for existing employees but also for new hires (Simkin, Crews, & Groves, 2012). In a survey of 120 U.S. Corporations, nearly a third of all employees have poor writing skills. Who is to blame for the lack of writing skills of Americans today?

The second level grammatical-rhetorical analysis aims to investigate the relationship between grammatical choice and rhetorical function in written English for science and technology. Discourse analysis as interaction represents the third level of language description. Most importantly, interactional analysis outlines the concept of interpretation of discourse by the reader or listener. Discourse analysis appears to have steadily moved from surface-level analysis to a deeper description of language use. However, in the context of language teaching for specific purposes, applied discourse analysis seems to represent a rather narrow description of language in use and is inadequate in its explanation. In order to introduce a thick description of language in use, it is necessary to combine socio-cultural and psycholinguistic aspects of text-construction and interpretation with linguistic insights to answer the question: why are specific discourse-genres written and used by the specialist communities the way they are? Genre analysis as an insightful description of English for specific purpose texts has become a useful and powerful tool to arrive at significant form-function correlations which can be utilized for a number of applied linguistic purposes.

A piece of writing is much more than just words on a page. Just as a potter carefully molds and carves every detail and shape into a piece of art, so does a writer. Each comma, dash, antecedent, and fragment is picked cautiously. Each grammatical choice brings to pass a different rhetorical effect creating an irreplaceable and unique piece of art filled with fine detail. Rhetorical grammar is the clay of a potter. One must have it to begin and it has a variety of options to choose from. A person’s ability to understand and use grammar is as the technique owned by the craftsmen. Just as clay can be brittle and weak, so can grammar if used incorrectly or not to its best ability. The most amazing work is not made simply by chance but because of

Employers and educators realize the importance of good writing skills but many business employees have writing deficiencies, costing American businesses billions of dollars every year. According to a study conducted by the National Commission on Writing (NCW) in 2004, American businesses may spend close to $3.1 billion yearly on the remediation of employees’ writing deficiencies. Consequently, employers are dissatisfied with employees writing skills and even more disappointed in the skills of new college graduates.

I chose to interview Gabby Turner, who is a graphic designer and social media strategist. She works for a non-profit organization called Ekhaya Youth Project, which provides support to families involved in the Louisiana Mental Health Services. After discussing the importance of strong writing and the function of grammar within her profession with Ms. Turner, I discovered new information about my future career path. She explained that strong writing plays an important role in her career because of the effect it has on her image. If she presents an idea through an email or presentation and her writing is not strong, then potential clients or co-workers may view her as inferior. Ms. Turner believes that although strong writing is important, in

Adjemian (1976) confirms that the explanation of these grammatical rules that will explain the features of the learner’s grammar should be the primary goal of linguistic research.

The preceding chapters contain instructions drawn from established English usage this one contains advice drawn from a writers experience of writing. Since the book is a rule book these cautionary remarks these subtly dangerous hints are presented in the form of rules but they are in essence mere gentle reminders they state what most of us know and at times forget.

Helen Sword, in her book, dispenses with vivid and elaborate explanations accompanied with succinct analysis. The author provides the reader with an easy-to-follow set of writing principles. What is perceive to be the most significant take-away ideas are the use active verbs at the appropriate time, the application of concrete language instead of vague abstractions, and avoiding long strings of prepositional phrases. Additionally, I value the concepts of employing adjectives and adverbs only when they are applicable in contributing something new to the meaning of a sentence. Another important idea presented by Sword is that of reducing one’s dependence on what she refers to as “waste words”: it, this, that, and there (Sword,

Completed writers respect the rules of grammar the way a flexible circus performer respects the tightrope grammar might be threatening and complicated, but we need it in order to perform. Yet sometimes, a flexible circus performer takes her foot off the tightrope. She does a flip orsome other trick of physical amazing abilities that seems to fight against the laws of gravity and go beyond the possibility of the human body. Grammar rules lend structure and clearness to our writing and gives us common ground rulesthat we can use to communicate clearly and effectively Poets don't always follow the rules , which is why poetry is attractive to writers who are especially creative, disobedient , and enjoy coloring outside the

This case study focused on one component of the program: the process of teaching and assessing business writing for the MBA program. Furthermore, they also offered ideas for helping the students who struggled with weak writing skills. The literature on business writing courses is limited, of the 32 programs studied, 18 had required communication classes, and only four had writing proficiency requirements. The

It is not uncommon to say that grammar instruction plays an important role in language teaching. Regarding the status and importance of grammar teaching, a variety of opinions have been made. Batstone (1994) states that “language without grammar would be chaotic: countless words without the indispensable guidelines for how they can be ordered and modified” (p. 4). More vividly, Wang (2010) makes two similes. She compares grammar to the frame of a house, which is a decisive factor to ensure the solidness of it. Additionally, she regards grammar as a walking stick, whose function is to help and support students to learn English. Thus, the nature of grammar instruction manifests its own significance as it helps students

Specialists in descriptive grammar (linguists) examine the principles and patterns that underlie the use of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. In contrast, prescriptive

In today’s society, there is no misconception in the fact that good quality writing is becoming a thing of the past. Nowadays, the older generation has been overruled by a younger generation with a lazy mentality. Back in the early 2000’s, people actually cared about the difference between there, their, and they’re. However, with the newer generation being born in the early 2000’s and technology replacing our brain power, no one over the age of 25 worries about the difference between an independent and dependent sentence. In fact, most people alive today use cell phones more than actual words; therefore, their brain is more geared towards fast text language over complete sentences. The decline in good writing skills is actually frustrating for a fellow writer as myself. It is understandable if you struggle with grammar because the rules never end, but everyone should know that a sentence like its g8 2 c u isn’t acceptable anywhere outside of a smartphone. Truth be told, it’s even annoying to read that language in messages because my brain will insult you while also trying to figure out what G and 8 means (I recently learn it means great).

Due to the constant growth of careers of women on board, they might arise ego clashes between men and women. Hence some marriages might also be effected because of this.

Syntax is the study of structure. It is used as approach to analyse the intended meaning of the text through the structure, such as the structure of sentences in news paper, speech, film, cartoon, magazine etc. It is used as a tool to analyse the ideology of people. It also belongs to negative and positive act which can be expressed through the syntactic