Written communication is essential in the domestic, academic and professional arenas, a reason why school and college students must strive to be perfect in writing. In colleges we take down lecture notes in writing, professionals communicate to fellow workers via written documents while at home we write mails to our friends and family members. Written communication is just as significant as verbal or non verbal communication since both help us relate with others. We have learned much over history through reading books, journals and letters written by the past generation. This is to say written communication play significance in storing information for future reference.
In academic arena, it is a course requirement that students must demonstrate excellence in writing. This is because, for a student to be successful he or she must be fluent in writing. Unless one is excellence in writing it will be difficult for him/her to take down notes while lecture is going on. Also writing exam requires writing proficiency because without good written communications skills it is a problem in answering questions. Taking notes or writing material when revising for exams, help student to retain those materials more easily and for long time. Therefore proficiency in writing is one of requirement in courses undertaken by students. When communicating to their instructors, students need to demonstrate ability in writing either through a paper or written contact. Some instructors may require their student to communicate to them (instructors) through writing. It will be only easier for a student to communicate with his/her instructor through writing if only he or she has excellent writing skills. Therefore written communication plays a key role in development of student-lecture relationship.
In professional arena, writing is very crucial throughout the employment process. Employers require job seekers to seek consideration for advertised vacancy through formal writing. By going through curriculum vitae of many applicants, the employer judges them by their ability to communicate in writing. Employers will choose the application in which the applicant has excellently expressed him or herself in writing. In addition, professionals communicate with their seniors and worker mates in writing. For instance, time might only require professionals to communicate with their co-workers in writing; that is due to lack of time and commitment, professionals might not call for a meeting to address others workers but just make a memo and distribute to them. This is to say written communication saves time.
In domestic arena, we require writing in our daily life. It often used when communicating to our friend and family members. Our family members and friends, whom we want to pass any message to, may not be within our reach via verbal communication. As result we may write mails or e-mails to pass the message to them. We apply some credit through writing and also by writing we get to fill paper works which are necessary to us. There are times when we can communicate with our friends only in writing. For instance, a person with learning disability can only be communicated with in writing. Hence writing is significance in bridging communication gap resulting from specific disabilities.
Generally communication in writing plays a significant role in storing information for future reference other than direct communication. We spend a lot of time reading written materials that we have kept them for years. These materials remind us of events that happened before us or the goods time we had with our friends in recent past. We keep information in writing so as to remember in case we forget.