Impress and Express

We just finished the first half of the Business Writing Workshop by Brainworks Asia. It's funny how some common phrases that we already perceived as canon grammar are actually technically incorrect. Phrases like "fill up" should be "fill out" and a "free gift" is obviously just a "gift" as an "ATM machine" is redundant since it already means Automated Teller MACHINE. But we often see and might have used them ourselves regularly.

I've written articles and literatures for publications and I've been into creative writing for God-knows how long already. With it, I'm the type who writes more to impress in addition to just express something. Formal writing for me is like a censorship. It restricts freedom in composition and artistry in wordplay.

As such, I don't feel any comfortable writing in a business tone just as how I feel fidgety and absurd wearing long-sleeve polo shirts at work.

This workshop has a lot to teach me; if not as much as to my grammatical usage but in inculcating in my mind that in a business environment, a concisely structured statement will win a Carlos Palanca Award over a creative fiction.

Funky.

Impress and Express

We just finished the first half of the Business Writing Workshop by Brainworks Asia. It's funny how some common phrases that we already perceived as canon grammar are actually technically incorrect. Phrases like "fill up" should be "fill out" and a "free gift" is obviously just a "gift" as an "ATM machine" is redundant since it already means Automated Teller MACHINE. But we often see and might have used them ourselves regularly.

I've written articles and literatures for publications and I've been into creative writing for God-knows how long already. With it, I'm the type who writes more to impress in addition to just express something. Formal writing for me is like a censorship. It restricts freedom in composition and artistry in wordplay.

As such, I don't feel any comfortable writing in a business tone just as how I feel fidgety and absurd wearing long-sleeve polo shirts at work.

This workshop has a lot to teach me; if not as much as to my grammatical usage but in inculcating in my mind that in a business environment, a concisely structured statement will win a Carlos Palanca Award over a creative fiction.

Funky.