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It should be "well-written communication."

• jfengel 6y ago
  "Well-written communication" is slightly better idiomatic English than "good written communication", but the latter isn't incorrect. "Good" and "written" are both adjectives modifying "communication". The potential confusion with "well-written" (where "well" is an adverb modifying "written") makes "good" feel a little awkward, but it's valid. That's hardly the worst thing about the sentence. "Today" is vacuous. "It's" is passive. "Almost" weakens "obvious", so we haven't even gotten to any actual information in the sentence and we're already quibbling. "Creates a business advantage" is awkward and vague. How does it create an advantage? What does this advantage accomplish? All it means is "Good writing is important", and that is in fact so obvious that it doesn't need to be said. So skip it and move on to something the reader might actually want to know.
  • maxerickson 6y ago
    Isn't "written communication" a noun phrase? Good written communication (say, well structured emails) is a different thing than well-written communication (maybe a speech is well written). The similar usage in the next paragraph points to the noun phrase meaning. Oh well.
    • jfengel 6y ago
      Yes, there are small semantic differences between the two. In this case I'd say that either one would suffice -- the differences are smaller than the overall awkwardness of the sentence. A really finely crafted article would pick precisely the correct phrase based on tone and meaning, but this one wasn't it.