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Communication skills are extremely important. Unfortunately, both written and oral skills are often ignored in engineering schools. Engineers may have excellent ideas and a strong case to make , but they do not know how to make it If you cant make the case, no matter how good the science and technology may be, you are not going to see your ideas reach execution/completion.
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Have you ever been annoyed by interference on your TV screen or may be could not hear a friend on the phone because someone was using a vacuum cleaner in the next room or the stereo was booming? Have you ever not been able to answer an exam question because you did not understand what the question wanted?
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In each case what you were experiencing was noise interfering with the transmission of information When ever a message is sent, someone is sending it and another is receiving it Applying this concept to engineering writing, we can say that anything causing a reader to hesitate in uncertainty, frustration, or even amusement is noise
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When you get the response that you want from your communication, it means you communicated well
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