TABLE OF CONTENTS Now that you have completed your work on Writing Effectively, let us review our workbook objectives.
When you have completed this workbook you will be better able to decide when it is more useful to write than to speak, and when a combination of the two is even more useful.
In Session A, we had a lot to say about the advantages of speech versus the advantages of writing, and pointed out various situations in which writing would be preferable. Emergencies, informal situations and meetings obviously call for speech. But when people are distant, facts need to go on the record, and when more complex ideas are being communicated, writing clearly has the edge.
Now you have completed your reading and responded to the Activities, you should have a clearer idea of when to write rather than speak. The best way to test this is to think about situations where you might use both.
In what situations would you opt for writing first, but back up your messages with speech, and why?
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In what situations would you opt for speech first, but back up your messages in writing, and why?
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The second objective is as follows.
When you have completed this workbook you will be able to give your written communications a better chance of:
reaching their destination;
being noticed;
being read;
being understood.
Many factors are involved in this, but the key is to...
