English 420Y - Business Writing Online

After reading the section “Writing for business and the workplace” on the Thomson Handbook, I found four points to be of great importance: First, the Role of Technology in Business, second, Effective Cover Letters and Resumes third, Effective Memos and finally, Effective Case Analysis. In today’s global environment communicating via e-mails, instant messaging among many other forms is increasingly becoming common. Having the proper skills to effectively and properly communicate is important in the professional world, especially for an individual like me who will be working in a multinational company and will have to communicate with people around the world, so learning the proper methods of communication is of great importance to me. Look for a professional job is something that hopefully all of those in college will at some point or another end up doing. Having a resume and cover letter that calls employers attention and highlights your skills and qualifications can be a challenge, with thousands of resumes out there. Learning to effectively convey your skills and ideas will provide you that link to the interview for that perfect job, that of course after also having some work experience, good grades and leadership involvement. Just because one can express its ideas on a resume and cover letter does not mean miracles happen if you have done nothing but partying in college. Memos is something I did not think would be of great use, especially now with emails. Yet, I was proved wrong after my two internship at Deloitte and Touche were I had to write to memo’s and has no idea how to do so. Today, I wish I would have taken this class earlier in my career path to guide myself in the proper way of writing a memo. Finally there are those infamous case analyses that all of us probably have done in one of our courses. Correctly targeting the key points in the cases and expressing the ideas clearly and precisely is usually a strategic thing in case analysis. Even though I was not exposed to case analyses in the professional environment I do know that many companies are now utilizing them in the recruiting process and I am sure that perhaps I will come pass one in real work.