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Week 4 Discussion Questions

1. In this age of electronic communications such as cell phones, text messaging, and e-mail, what is the role of formal writing? How do you think these digital communication methods influence the writing process?

In this age of electronic communications, people always use cell phones, text messaging, and e-mail every day. The communication through e-mail and text messages is not formal writing because people often use basic language or symbols in quick and simple way to exchange a few words with each other. These communications will limit the ability to perform formal writing in both the academic and profession environments. During the writing process, people tend to make errors such as misspell words, no punctuation, and grammar. These errors will make the reader confuse and unable to understand the main point of the paper. In conclusion, people should practice writing proper English in the daily electronic communications. It will help them success in both the academic and profession environments.

2. How do you think presenting information differs from writing a paper on that same information?

Although the information for the research stays the same, the writing paper and the presentation are different by the way of individual deliver the information to the audiences. Writing paper provides the sources to show how reliable of information and helps determine the bias based for it. On other hand, presentation cannot be easy to verify the reliability of information. Presentation is a way to show and help the audiences understand the information in certain time frame. During presentation, try make the audiences involve and start questions about the information. Overall, presentation is oral communication between people about the information in the writing