That s the cost of doing business, and it s important. Many career-long friendships have been formed over a beer at the Young Engineers Forum. We seat you with the same people all month, so you may not be sitting with your friends, but you might just make a new one. Some claim that engineers are not good writers. If anything, engineers would be excellent writers if they were to apply the exacting standards of their profession to their writing the need to be objective, practical, direct, clear and logical.
Effective writing establishes trust.
Vague, ambiguous and unclear writing can come back to haunt you should something go wrong. Learn how to avoid liability with clear, concise writing. In addition, you will learn the qualities of good writing and how to immediately incorporate them into your own life. Steven Schultz, Ph.D., is president of Writing at Work. Since starting Writing at Work in 1985, he has trained business and industry professionals to produce their own effective and clear documentation.