Monday, September 15, 2008

Response to Lindsay Sterling's Ch. 3 post

Well I am glad to know that I am not the only one that felt overwhelmed after learning about the writing guidlines in ch. 3. However, I also did realize how important they are in the success of certain business writings. For me, I see how helpful this is but to actually implement all of this in my writing seems very hard. It would take forever for me to make sure all these guidlines were met. Maybe it is just practice make perfect for something like this. So I agree that for an experienced writer this may not seem to complex, but for a new writer it does. Having something like the example in figure 3.5 would be extremely helpful because it is one page of questions to consider when determining your objectives. Having something like this, for me, would increase the chance of me trying to keep focused on these points. Its crazy, once you sit down and think about what you are actually writing, there are so many questions to consider when writing to certain readers. To know that you will get certain outcomes depending on just how you write the memo, or email makes it just that much more important to be aware of.

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