BSAD 98
February 19th, 2015
Business writing is extremely important in the business world. A number of professional business representatives make persuasive arguments that university students are so bad at business writing. In this paper, I will explain the problems that students have when they write in the business environment. I will also define what good writing is and why it is significant for business students to have these skills. Finally, I will honestly assess my communication abilities by using examples and experiences.
When college advisors say “students write poorly”, it means students are writing an article by using poor grammar, poor punctuation, poor vocabulary, and poor time planning. Lots of professional writers who have been working with students in universities found that university students cannot even provide a logical thought or reasoned argument. According to the poet and playwright Michelene Wandor, a large number of university students don’t know that a sentence is, what a verb is, what a noun is. The children’s author Yvonne Coppard agrees: “They have sentences that draggle all over the place, you can see whole pages without paragraphs, and as for speech punctuation.” Social media and instant messaging make students write informally and send out quickly. They tend to do the same thing when they plan to send out an email or a message in the workplace without thinking and proofreading it.
A good writing is that the reader can clearly understand the purpose and the content of the message. Jargons and scientific words should be avoided in order to keep the message simple, clear and precise. Grammar, punctuation and vocabulary are supposed to be used properly in the content. A good writing should also be brief, which means to keep it as short as possible without losing any main points.
It is very important for university students to have good