Workplace Writing: Separating Myths From Facts
Today's knowledge workers are doing more writing on the job than ever before. Flattened management hierarchies, heightened global competition, expanded team-based management, and heavy reliance on e-mail have all contributed to more written messages.
Task:-
Discuss the following statements. are they myths or facts?
a. Because I'm in a technical field, I will work with numbers, not words.
b. secretaries will clean up my writing problems.
c. Technical writers do most of the real writing on the job.
d. computers can fix any of my writing mistakes.
e. I can use form letters for most messages.