Writing in the field of Economics
When
it comes to discussing Economics, calculations, concepts, diagrams, but at the
same time, writing is also as the important part in the field of Economics. In
order to understand the daily writing content and form of professionals in the
field of economics, I interviewed a first-year master in the economic college.
The
people I interviewed already had a whole year of experience in economic and satisfied
with his work. Usually, he spends 3 to 4 hours in economic writing every day,
and his writings are in order for those commercial employees more effectively to
understand financial information. According to him, he will consider the
following aspects when he is writing the papers, content, purpose and
understanding degree. In general, if the staff has financial foundation before,
he will write some professional words without too many comments and focus on
analyzing not just introduce. On the contrary, if the staff doesn’t have any
professional knowledge before, he may write some easier words to explain those
difficult concepts and help readers to understand (Personal communication,
September 3, 2018).
During
his career, he also encountered many papers that are hard to read or understand.
For example, in his opinion, those abbreviations of financial words and complex
words make the paper harder. Occasionally, he will receive several e-mails
containing many long sentences, and those long sentences will lead him hard to
read. So, he thinks it’s very important to keep short sentence or use easier
way to explain the same point. It’s important, because reader will hard to make
sense of the author’s words when the sentences are too long (Personal
communication, September 3, 2018).
Besides,
he indicated that he learned a lot of excellent thinking skills during writing
class, because writing class gives him an opportunity to focus on editing,
rewriting, and improving his papers in a period. His major also requires him to
answer queries from clients and come up with his new questions, and these
writing missions must be explicit structure to effectively deliver the
necessary information. Therefore, he learned a few different ways to improve
his work, such as make a proposal, write first draft and revise the final
draft. I strongly agree with him because it just likes what we are doing in
this rhetoric course. More importantly, summaries, comments and analyses for
other articles are useful for writers to improve their writing skills.
Therefore, I would like to analysis the writing skills for the following six
resources.
Overall I found your report to be very informative and opinionated on writing within the field of economics. There were portions of your report that were a bit difficult to read because they were repetitive and did not flow very well, such as most of page 7 where you give several examples of the reliability of articles. It may also be a good idea to expand on your introduction, you could introduce the field of economics and explain what economists do.
ReplyDeleteSome of your word choice within the report could be altered, first of all it is not recommended to refer to yourself as “I,” “me,” or “my” in your report because it makes you sound a bit unprofessional. In order to sound more professional you may also want to change the compound words in your essay to two seperate words, such as “it’s” to “it is.” Beginning a sentence with the word “and” also sounds unprofessional and you may want to change that too. It is also a good idea to have at least one sentence after your parenthetical citations within each paragraph, rather than finishing a paragraph with a citation.
To add to your paper even further, your conclusion should include more than just restating the main points of your paper, you could include some sort of insight into the field of economics. Your references could use some work as well, like taking out the large gaps and changing the text from blue to black and removing the underline. Overall your paper was really good and I like how many examples and quotations you used.