Improve Writing Communication Skills
Improve Writing Communication Skills
To bring over a written message clear, understandable and polite, without eye contact or body language can be difficult for some people.
Here are some tips you can benefit from while communicating online on forum, Social Media and email.
- Don't be bluntRefrain from any personal or sexually explicit question before you actually have met someone in person. It's very impolite to start your acquaintance with: "Are you free?" These questions belong to a dating site.
- Avoid misunderstanding
Do not use sarcasm and be very cautious with humor. What in one country leads to people who are laughing their ass off, is offensive in another country. - Be always polite
Start out with something like, hey, how are you, and finish with, have a nice day and sign with your name. - Keep things civilized
Don't fight things out in writing! When you catch yourself writing a complete essay of defense and prosecution to someone you've never met in person? Stop right there!
Skip the remark, close your computer, and go to bed! - Intoxicated comments
When you are having a few drinks, perhaps some other drug, refrain yourself from every written and online communication!
Always remember:
"It takes at least 100 words of excuse, to make up for one wrong communicated word"
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Great stuff Loes - Wish you would stick to your own rules - especially the first one! lol!! (couldn't resist that one!!).
I am not a great writer naturally speaking but I do get a lot of compliments on the stuff I publish. Something I intentionally don to help make my writing more personal and reader focused as if I was talking directly to them was to go out and read a lot of biographies, particularly autobiographies that I am interested in.
Reading does help your writing and as a fellow speaker of other languages I know that you understand the value that reading has on a persons vocabulary ;-),
Great blog :-)
Thanks, Derek. Yes, I know my vocabulary has increased with 80% since I joined WA. And don't mind me saying, I can be very blunt, you only have to ask my husband and children about it;)
Probably your grammar has shot up also.
I find reading and writing in another language really helps the grammar aspect as well as the vocabulary.
that's for sure!! I definitely learned the hard way how easily communication can be misunderstood over text!! I refrain from making any remarks when angry, which doesn't happen often, but it has happened!! Great post, and advice! :)
For sure!!! Then trying to backtrack tends to even make things worse as I try to fix the problem over text..yup..I can honestly say I learned my lesson!! :) lol
Yes, have been on the receiving side of this, not nice at all. I do not mean yourself though Loes. xx
THanks, Loes. My problem is placing the commas in the wrong location, or not using one when needed.
I know, but it puts comma's where we, as Dutch, do not use them and forget comma's where we do use them.
This sentence has to be, according to Grammarly, without a comma's
You are so right. Great post I think people forget that the written word doesn't always sound the way you mean it. They are just words on a page you can't inflect humor, sadness, or empathy easily without being face to face with someone so they can see your body language and facial expressions.
Someone once told me that before you hit the send button on anything you write you should stop, get up and walk away for a couple minutes and then come back reread what you wrote and then if you still feel it's good, send it. I think that's great advice. I hope everyone has a great day.
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Very, very good advice Loes. Thank you for the post.
Wayne
(gardenguy)
Thanks, Wayne, you're welcome:)