Question

create an appropriate document that addresses the following scenario:

A dozen college freshmen have recently been hired at your firm as summer interns. Various employees have been assigned the task of instructing the interns in different aspects of the business world. You have been asked to conduct a one-hour mini-workshop on workplace writing. You decide that as part of that workshop you want to give the interns a handout that clarifies the differences between workplace writing and academic writing. Based on this scenario, you are to do the following: design a document entitled “How Writing in the Workplace Is Different from Writing in School.” You have the option of choosing the best format for the document. In short, you may choose to do a handbook, a brief paragraph, an outline, an infographic… the options are endless. Because various possible formats may have different word counts, the length of this document will not be considered for assessment.

Answer 1

“How Writing in the Workplace Is Different from Writing in School.”

Writing in the workplace is different from writing in school as academic writing is formal and impersonal. Academic writing is done from third person perspective and usually done to share well researched facts and theories. It needs to be well planned and includes essays, research papers to be shared with well informed audience and experts to give an idea about knowledge gained on a particular subject or topic. It does not include jargons, abbreviations and is theoretical in nature and is more consistent.

Workplace writing needs to be concise, objective and clear. Workplace writing is mostly communication related and is contextual. It can be informal compared to writing in school but needs to be professional. Audience in business writing is different from academic writing. It is colleagues, seniors, business partners, suppliers and customers , accordingly the writing in workplace needs to change its tone and forms of addressing. Workplace writing is oriented towards presenting facts and plans, building relationships and regular communication on status, clarifications, feedback and notifications. It impacts business and work related issues.

The various forms of workplace writing are emails, memos, letters, press releases and resume writing. Writing in schools mainly includes articles, essays, abstracts and subject related explications.