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Conversely, I think employers should actively promote writing and communications training programs to send staff to. One of the people I previously had the ple
by Ansil849 6y ago
Conversely, I think employers should actively promote writing and communications training programs to send staff to.
One of the people I previously had the pleasure of working next to was absolutely brilliant in his field (malware reversing, broadly), but watching his presentations was an awkward experience. He just could not communicate his work effectively, either in a written or spoken medium and was someone who would have benefited immensely from a writing and presentation workshop.
- cratermoon 6y agoGiven how many of my fellow students in college studying math/science were convinced that the required english lit/composition course was a waste of time, and disdained the liberal arts generally, this is a problem that arises early in education somehow. How did we end up here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxjT7veKi9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxjT7veKi9c
- Ansil849 6y agoHonestly, I feel like the maths and science lecturers are the source for reinforcing the paradigm that their job is simply to teach maths and science, not effective communications of the topics. Many of them likely feel the same way as their students. At the bare minimum, they should explicitly and repeatedly mention in their courses the importance of taking writing classes, if not have an entire part of their own curricula devoted to these topics.
- cratermoon 6y agoThe number of educators with terrible communications skills is a real problem, and I'm not talking about language/cultural differences, either. In higher education, with the focus on research and publish-or-perish over teaching, there are many disincentives to effective communication and writing is constrained to the academic style.