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|body=In this learning pathway, you have learnt about the principles of good writing and explored techniques for writing clearly and effectively. However, opportunities to improve your writing skills do not end with this course! | |body=In this learning pathway, you have learnt about the principles of good writing and explored techniques for writing clearly and effectively. However, opportunities to improve your writing skills do not end with this course! | ||
Read [https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_business-communication-for-success/s08-02-how-is-writing-learned.html Chapter 4.2: How is writing learned?] in Saylor Academy's ''Business Communication for Success''. | Read [https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_business-communication-for-success/s08-02-how-is-writing-learned.html Chapter 4.2: How is writing learned?] in Saylor Academy's ''Business Communication for Success''. | ||
This reading advises that good writing is the result of experience, effort, critical thinking, and targeted practice. The more you read, write, reflect on your work, and invite constructive criticism, the more your skills will develop. Reading various types of business documents, publications, and media articles will help you learn conventional genre patterns, which in turn can help you reduce preparation and production time when you create your own documents. To overcome writer’s block, keep a positive attitude to writing, take the mystery out of writing by learning the essential skills, do rough drafts, and use think-aloud, and read-aloud, strategies to write and revise. | This reading advises that good writing is the result of experience, effort, critical thinking, and targeted practice. The more you read, write, reflect on your work, and invite constructive criticism, the more your skills will develop. Reading various types of business documents, publications, and media articles will help you learn conventional genre patterns, which in turn can help you reduce preparation and production time when you create your own documents. To overcome writer’s block, keep a positive attitude to writing, take the mystery out of writing by learning the essential skills, do rough drafts, and use think-aloud, and read-aloud, strategies to write and revise. | ||
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'''Recommended activity''': Do the three chapter exercises that encourage you to interview a person whose job involves writing, analyze the business section of a newspaper, and practice filling out an online form that requires writing sentences. }} | '''Recommended activity''': Do the three chapter exercises that encourage you to interview a person whose job involves writing, analyze the business section of a newspaper, and practice filling out an online form that requires writing sentences. }} | ||
