Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azurelunatic) wrote2002-11-05 09:08 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-11-05 09:08 pm
My Strengths and Weaknesses in the Field of Communications
My strengths in the field of communication include writing, reading, listening, and speaking. I have been writing, and honing my writing skills, since age three; while my first efforts were understandably primitive in comprehensibility, my current writing includes an unfinished 400+ page novel, several short stories published in the 1998 SFAC student magazine, two articles on the no longer available website azarcane.com, and an online journal with a readership of over 100. I have been called a "walking thesaurus" at several points, starting in high school, and have a better-than-average vocabulary. I can translate from Non-Geek to Geek effectively. My listening skills have led, ultimately, to my ordination through the ULC, to put legal whammy behind the concept that I am the person that people wind up talking to and turning to for advice. I can stand in front of an audience and hack my way through a presentation with relative ease; it helps immensely if I do know what I'm talking about to start with.
My weaknesses mostly include a vast unfamiliarity with the proper forms of business writing. I have a vague idea that memos are circulated throughout companies, and that the form of an e-mail seems to be based in part on the traditional form of a memo, but other than that, and my father's delightful prank bogus memos, I have little idea of how to go about formulating one. I also have the vague conception that a business letter, in addition to being different in diction and tone from a friendly letter, is also formatted differently, but again, I would not have the faintest idea of how to go about crafting one without a helpful word-processor template to help me. I am liable to talk too much, or too fast, if nervous.
My weaknesses mostly include a vast unfamiliarity with the proper forms of business writing. I have a vague idea that memos are circulated throughout companies, and that the form of an e-mail seems to be based in part on the traditional form of a memo, but other than that, and my father's delightful prank bogus memos, I have little idea of how to go about formulating one. I also have the vague conception that a business letter, in addition to being different in diction and tone from a friendly letter, is also formatted differently, but again, I would not have the faintest idea of how to go about crafting one without a helpful word-processor template to help me. I am liable to talk too much, or too fast, if nervous.