BC 206

Communication Skills II
 Writing Process and Workplace communication

• Is writing a Process?
• Yes.
• It is a process and not just a final product.
• It requires routine, skills, strategies and practices:
• Prewriting
• Writing
• Revising
• Editing
• Publishing
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• It is a complete process and results as a complete

product
• Pre-writing
• Think about topic
• Gather ideas
• Idea-gathering strategies:
Free-writing
Brainstorming
Journal writing
 Writing Process and Workplace communication

• The Writing Process:

Plan your writing
• Involves:
• Formulate ideas and draft a rough title
• Identify purpose and audience
• Choose a point of view- single perception
• Selecting verb, sentence mode and cohesive
 Writing Process and Workplace communication

• To formulate a topic sentence:

• Collate different aspects and focus on main idea

• Sentence must state one idea that hints the idea of the
paragraph
• Must be placed as a first sentence of the paragraph
• Perhaps, starting with a word or a phrase that specifies
writer’s intention- orientation:
• Don’t take cliché topic or a similar topic
• Crucial as subject one is going to write about
• Topic is required to avoid conflicts
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• Exercise:
• Three characteristics of a good student, citizen or a friend
• Topic-
• Learning to drive takes practice
• Topic-
• Most frightening experience in my Life
• Topic
• Learned to be disciplined
• Topic-
• Management and HR
• Topic-
• Marketing and PR
• Topic-
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• To formulate a topic sentence:

• Do not make announcements;

• Make significant points;
• For instance: I will discuss about the process of changing tires
(N0)
• Changing tire is a simple process if you have right tools and
follow simple instructions (YES)
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• Identifying purpose and audience:

• Why am I writing this topic?
• Who am I addressing?

• Purpose sets direction of one’s writing

• It propels one to communicate thoughts and feelings
• It has relatively strong conviction and enthusiasm
• It provides an overall structure of framework
• Balance between your purpose and audience or reader
• Balance is required to bring impact and immediacy and gain
attention
 Writing Process and Workplace communication

• Point of View:

• Crux of the whole;

• A position from where one looks at the idea;
• Good to be decisive in perception;
• It guides to shape conversation or writing
• One remains within the context
• Tightens the essay
• Maintains interest
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