Most of people wish to have a good command of communication, both speaking and writing.
Some people may think both commnunication skills should be equivalently regarded as important in any human relatonships, however I believe writing ability is substantially more important than speaking ability as it is often thought as more official way of communication in business world in any societies.
Besides, writing ability requires more sensible attitude as the records like emails and reports can last nearly forever as long as receivers keep them.
It can be illustrated that email communication is regarded as the most effective way of communication in business world and in deed, mostly prefered among people working in the office. Since working time is limited that there is not enough time to discuss about a single topic, then people naturally prefer writing emails as it is very convenient to take less time to think over the issues to be written and reduce time for dicussing a single issue when compared to speaking. Communication in speaking tends to bring unwanted or unintended waste of time that rather good ability of writing in communication is more essential in time-limited business world.
Another specific reason that writing ability should be more concerned is records of any written communication could last forever such as emails and reports that mistakes in writing would bring unexpected troubles to people that it requires more cautions. For instance, a friend of mine sent a wrong email to her boyfriend which supposed to be sent to me. My friend was complaining about bad attitudes and troubles between them which never talked with her boyfriend yet in the email. This email incident eventually brought them unfortunate result, ended up break up. Seeing from this unlucky case, we can realize how wary we need to be when writing things as it can cause unexpected incidents and bring troubles as it can last forever. Unlike speaking, writing communication cannot be reversible in this sense.
Overall, I would claim that people need to imporve their writing abilities more than speaking as writing skills are more used and more regarded as a sensible communication way in both daily life and business world. |