Building the Body Paragraph
Taking an English course can help not only in other courses. It can help in all other areas, especially in business writing where it is important in all correspondence / emails (including attachments such as letters and memos) and white papers. Certainly, any student who has not taken an English course will almost inevitably notice that their grades are not as good as course graduates. Both effective academic and business writing encourages simplicity and conciseness to get the point of the piece across. Reading, thinking and writing skills that were learned in the university should not be thrown away because they will be necessary to succeed and advance in the business world. While there are differences in between academic and business writing (primarily in the area of the expression of opinions), documents such as white papers involve writing in order to reach decisions. In short, the university writing experience translates directly into the real world. Needless to say, grammatical correctness makes money and grammatical errors cost money.
Brevity, clarity and precision are the essential features of every email as well as its attachments such as letters and extended memos. Those who have been in a job for awhile have probably had the experience of laughing at a mistake in a coworker's email, especially when it is widely distributed. In addition, in any business career, most people have had to have a badly written email clarified by the author. Also, badly written emails can lead to disastrous and expensive misunderstanding that can be organization wide. They have the potential it has the to be abused Emails have become a large part of modern communication and have made the world smaller now that business people the ability to send and receive messages over distances at speedily. Errors can quickly become huge and widespread.
Effective decision making is as important in business as it is in academia. A white paper is a report or guide that helps solve a pressing problem. White papers are used to educate business readers and help business leaders make decisions. In commercial use this has come to refer to documents used by businesses as marketing or sales tools. Decision documents such as white papers help guide and implement corporate decisions and as such need to be concisely and clearly written. Especially in these types of documents, analytical thinking that is fostered in academic can greatly focus and streamline and focus a document upon essential options. Then, decision makers can make the best decisions possible.
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