Writing

Yanan He

BSAD 098

Writing Assignment

Knowing How to Write

After reading the two articles University students: They can't write, spell or present an argument, and Business schools take aim at bad writing, I understand that why business people tell our faculty that students write poorly. There are two important reasons that why students can not write efficiently: one is poor basic English writing skills and another is ineffective writing.

First reason, students lack skills in grammar and lack of basic ability to express themselves in writing. From the article of University students: They can’t write, spell or present on argument, one of the poet and playwright Michelen Wandor say:“students don’t know what a sentence is, and what are verbs and nouns are. Students struggle with apostrophes and they don’t know what tense they are writing in. ”Moreover, A children’s author Yvonne Coppard also said: “Their syntax and grammar are sloppy, they are sentences that draggle all over the place, you can see whole pages without paragraphs, and as for speech punctuation.” As show from the above example from the article, we could see that students in college are really lack of grammar and structure skills. However, those skills are the basic skill we need in order to communicate with our audience.

Second reason is ineffective writing. Nowadays, the technology is growing so fast, people can commutate in all different ways, such as text-messages, e-mails, Facebook, twitters.

Those are effect students’ writing in hidden way. For example, when students text-message they use a lot of abbreviation word, such as LOL (laugh out loud), KIT(keep in touch), NP(no problem) and so on. However, when they write e-mail to their managers, they also used those abbreviation words. Think about it, if the managers see those words, how would they think about

you as a profession. To be a profession, using appropriate words in the writing is important. From the above two reasons, I understand...