Aaron M's Writing Clearly Techniques

In our day and age, it is becoming more and more difficult to write, let alone write clearly. We have become more accustom to the slang and abbreviations of our text message culture. While this may be necessary or even a must when dealing with instant messaging or text’s, it is a completely different story when it comes to professional writing. In the professional world, you succeed in life by having your audience, whoever that may be, clearly understand your writing. This may be your clients, your coworkers, or even a prospective boss. Clear writing can be reached just by looking at three simple things; audience, grammar, and proofreading.

The first part of writing clearly is understanding your audience and how they will interpret things. Are you writing to doctors or to local boy scout troop? When you answer this question, you can begin to plan your writing project. You can begin to see how someone will be reading your writing and how they will be processing it.

Another part would be the cold hard truth of improving grammar. Its the case for everyone, from the plumber to the president. We all could use some improvement in that area. The most basic would be that of spelling. Of which I am very guilty of. I need a lot of practice in that area. Another would be just your normal word usage. For example, you see many people using too many words to describe something. This is what is known as pleonasm. When you say the phrases “cease and desist” or “he walked over went to that very spot right there,” these are examples of wordiness, or whats known as pleonasm. And these are just a few examples of how we can improve our grammar when its comes to writing.

Proofreading is another key when it comes to writing clearly. Rereading your material and having others reread it for you can be a great time and embarrassment saver. You never know what you might innocently miss when you are madly typing away at your keyboard. So the more eyes you have on your writing projects before you actually publish them, the better.

And these three things are only a couple of the things we need to do to be preparing ourselves to write more clearly. The better we write in every aspect of our lives; business, social, and religious, the better we will be able to communicate with every person we come in contact with.



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