3 ms·
This is an odd take, do people in white collar jobs not need to write and communicate through writing effectively? I write memorandums and reports for clients
by NoPicklez 2y ago
This is an odd take, do people in white collar jobs not need to write and communicate through writing effectively?
I write memorandums and reports for clients where I need to articulate technical concepts in a way that is simple to understand. Where I need to communicate my findings to non-technical and technical stakeholders, the process to be able to write those reports takes a long time.
You may not need a college course on writing, but generalising that people don't need to be taught to write is stupid.
I have seen many of our graduates use LLM's to help compose their reports, without them understanding how it reads and what they're trying to communicate, those sections need to be rewritten.
- atonse 2y agoSame here. I pushed my team to use ChatGPT instead of fearing it. But one of my ex employees who used to write substandard tickets still wrote substandard tickets with ChatGPT (I had asked him to get advice from ChatGPT on what makes for effective tickets). The only difference was that they had perfect punctuation and grammar, and were 5x more verbose. Like any tool, if you don’t know what you’re asking for, the result will suffer.
- NoPicklez 2y agoExactly, if you don't know what you're asking for, how it reads or how it tells the story you're trying to convey. You will just have a well written piece of text that doesn't make sense in the context of what you're trying to say.