3 Writing Exercises Guaranteed to Make You a Better Engineer
Advance yourself by honing your written communication skills
If you’re interested in advancing within the engineering field and earning higher pay, you’ll need to increase two major factors of your work:
- your scope of influence
- the complexity of the tasks you take on
To do this, you will need to influence technical direction by expressing ideas in a way that people can agree with and understand your intentions. In the tech field, these conversations mostly happen in writing.
Software engineers don’t like meetings. They prefer to see data and read evidence on their own time. Strong communication skills are the “biggest determiner of success in the modern engineer’s professional career,” (Riemer, 2007). Yet, software engineers rarely emphasize their writing abilities when skilling up.
The consequences of poor writing skills are eloquently described in this passage by Riemer:
“Ineffective and poor written communication in engineering workplaces were found to lead to misinterpretation, inefficiency and time wastage, thereby adversely affecting problem resolution. Such miscommunication was then found to contribute to mistrust and aggression, as well as…
