Critical Thinking: Discussion Question

Identify areas of vagueness and ambiguity and discuss how you could clarify the email’s message using the writing principles addressed in the text.

Hi class,

I don’t have a lot of time to explain but off the top of my head answer is as a reader critical thinking affects me all ways. Not just reading but writing too. Sometimes what I read I must write about later like this discussion question so clearly I have to read. Clear writing is the hardest thing in the world. Though I don’t the average writer has to write business rapports which can build report and be inter personal. In critical writing, writers construct sentences with clear intentions. Business people write fast because the business people I know are always in a hurry. Business reading is reports, memos and articles. My aunt is a university professor and she writes articles for journals. She is smart and a better writer than my uncle who is a businessman. So critical writers are better than business writers. But critical writing like argumentative essays have structure, so business writing has structure too. It’s not a matter of one kind of writing being harder than the other it’s that the structure is harder.

Thanks,
Owen

Personally, I do not feel this is a very well written as there are many areas of ambiguity vagueness within the text. Owen, the author, seems to jump around from thought to thought without explaining his thought process or using evidence to support his points. For example, “Sometimes what I read I must write about later like this discussion question so clearly I have to read. Clear writing is the hardest thing in the world.” We, as readers, can only guess as to how you go from talking about the necessity of reading to clear writing being the hardest thing in the world. Owen’s writing is also very vague at points: “She is smart and a better writer than my uncle who is a businessman.” Why is the aunt a better writer than the uncle? Is this because she is a professor and instructs others on writing or is her writing just “better” than the uncle’s? The whole message in general is also not grammatically correct which when reading is the same as listening to a conversation with someone who cannot construct a complete sentence. For example, “…has to write business rapports which can build report and be inter personal”; this should be written as “…has to write business reports which can build rapport and be interpersonal.” This whole message seems more like a rough-draft than the final product. Almost every individual sentence can be taken as a separate talking point; after writing this, Owen should re-read what he has written and analyze every sentence and think where he can go with that message.