Reflective Essay: The Advanced Writing In Professional Contexts

The Norton Field Guide to Writing covers topics about writing and composing. Several of which I was already familiar with. In chapter 2, Bullock and Weinberg express how “Many readers find it helps to annotate as they read…” (16). I have become very familiar with annotating over the years. I often use this writing method to help me understand and summarize text I come across.

My writing experience about the career paper was more informative than I was expecting. By reading the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), I quickly realized that there was so much information about a career in medicine, I was not aware of especially with regards to employment and predicted employment rates. However, the most difficult part of the writing process was trying to incorporate personal information into the narrative while using statistics and descriptions from OOH to come up with a coherent essay. For example, with a plethora of personal information and details about factors that has motivated me to pursue a career in medicine, it was difficult to summarize and incorporate information from OOH into my

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.

Coming into this class, I wasn't sure what to expect. Of course,I expected to be writing a lot but was unsure of the type of writing and the style. I was looking forward to writing challenging pieces that stretching me creatively as a writer. I wanted to explore how to express myself in my writing because it had been a long time since I'd written a creative essay. One of my main hopes for this class was challenging myself to become a better editor of my own papers. I often find it a tedious and laborious process to find and edit the grammatical errors in my papers. However, this is an important skill that I need to develop for my future as a successful writer.

College level writing, is the first thing taught when starting a college-level class. meaning the dynamic of how a student was taught to write has been changed and it’s now held to much higher standers. When beginning college, the student is taught the writing process, the writing process is prewriting, outlining ideas, writing a rough draft, revising, and editing. The writing process is what helps the student start the essay, and get to the finishing product. When using the writing process, it also teaches the students good time management skills. Because with each step-in the writing process, a student must make take time for each task. A student to take time to come up with ideas, start prewriting, make an outline, make time to draft, revise, and then edit the essay. Therefor, not only does the writing process teach students how to write in a professional manner, but

Life is a cycle of learning and the dissemination of what we’ve learned. In each day of our lives we learn something new to add to our list of skills and knowledge. When I first entered university, I thought the writing courses were useless and just a waste of time since we all can write. Later, however, I realized how those courses are beneficial in improving our critical thinking and communication skills not only the style of writing.

Most of us were in a situation when we had to say: “I am not too good at it.”, or “I can try, but it is not my field”. For example, somebody will ask me to draw a picture of a cat. I will try. I have seen cats before, know how to operate a pencil, have a flat piece of paper. I am even passing by art gallery on the regular basis, on my way to work. But I still cannot be sure you will not mistake my picture of a cat for a picture of a tractor or an intergalactic battlefield scene. That is how I feel about assignment to write about my writing process. So far, mine I can divide in three steps.

The area of growth I will need in order to succeed in this program is my writing skills. I understand that academic writing is an important part of my development as a doctoral student. It is the only way I can demonstrate my learning experience (Lloyd, & Marjorie, 2007). This is the reason I am taking out time to work personally on my writing skills. By the end of this semester, I will be on the same level as my

Business writing instruction doesn't only influence writing skills. It will help me to formulate my thoughts more analytically, succinctly, and clearly as well as, simultaneously, enhancing my oral communication

In this letter, I am going to be introducing myself, my writing goals, how writing is used in my field, and the science issue that affects my organization.

Four in five employers stated that they would be more likely to consider an individual as a job candidate if he or she had completed multiple courses that required a great amount of writing assignments (Hanover Research 2016). More than two-thirds of employers indicate that requiring students to complete courses with applied learning projects would improve the quality of learning and the quality of preparation for their targeted career (Hanover Research 2016). The importance of writing skills in a workplace falls into three categories, professional, communication, and credibility. Professionally good writing skills are important when the selected job involves writing, for example, paralegal or journalist (Hanover Research 2016). These professionals must have great writing skills to do their jobs, but recently more professionals are required to have good writing skills than just those careers associated with writing (Hanover Research 2016). If the profession requires any written communication, the employer views writing as a needed and valuable skill (Hanover Research 2016). Two-thirds of employees in large companies have the responsibility of writing at some point and need to be good at writing to succeed and half of all companies consider writing skills when deciding promotions (Hanover Research 2016). Communication is the next category and is extremely important because an individual cannot be successful without some form of communication. In just about any career a person could acquire communication will occur whether it be an email, notes, letters, text, memo, presentation, or reports (Hanover Research 2016). If a person does not possess good writing skills any form of communication will be ineffective and in the end effecting the company’s productivity. The last category is credibility because people view individuals as more credible when they have good writing skills (Hanover Research 2016). If an

Employers and accredited business schools recognize that “good writing skills” are essential for an individual to have in order to thrive in a professional and academic environment. “If both employer and educators recognize the importance of good writing skills, why do they continue to bemoan the lack of such skills” (Simkin, Crew, & Groves, 2012, p. 3-8)? At this time we are going to address “Student Perceptions of Their Writing Skills: Myth and Reality” to further answer these questions. Hopefully, after engaging in this essay, an assessment of your own writing perceptions will ignite a desire for you to become a more effective writer.

     This course has shown me that I am capable of writing in a variety of

Throughout high school, I have been practicing numerous types of writing. Persuasive, research, expository, emails, the list is extensive.  However, I have a very limited experience with workplace writing. Through a volunteer opportunity, I am currently exploring educational writing geared towards elementary and middle school students who have an interest in aviation. This opportunity requires me to create lesson plans, informative papers, and concise instructions for the students, as well as my supervisors. While there have been many influences on my writing, I believe the most beneficial experience I have had was enrolling in an advanced placement course. This course pushed me to write in a timely manner, exercise multiple essay and sentence

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