Compare and Contrast Business Writing Style of Two Texts
Compare and Contrast Business Writing Style of Two Texts
Introduction
Using comparison and contrasting analysis on Frehse's (2003), "Manage Your Own Career -Reinvent Your Job" and Tyson's (1998) "Working with Groups" and "Managing Conflict," offers the opportunity for examining the characteristics of academic writing with non-academic writing. In the scholarly exercise presented, the evidences include demonstrating correct referencing with in-text quotations, direct quotations, paraphrasing, and a referencing.
Compare
Comparing the three offerings by Frehse and Tyson reveals the information is academic in nature because the three offers referenced direct quoted knowledge by recognized experts on the topics of their discourse. According to Monash University, academic writing as exampled in Frehse's (2003) and Tyson's (1998) texts provides information and facts on a particular subject (business) through their observation as professionals and their study of the subject. Non-academic writing holds the characteristic of information coming from a personal expression of the writer's "opinion" about life such as family, personal experiences, or observations of activities not of an academic nature. Academic writing focuses on academic audiences in particular. Non-academic writing focuses on most other topics having nothing to do with academics (2014). This is an example of paraphrasing original text for use in explaining this concept.
In Frehse's dialogue about developing and managing career he quotes, "Martin Luther King said, 'If you are called to be a street sweeper, sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will praise to say, ''Here lives a great sweeper who did his job well' (p. 57)." Tyson on the "Conflict Management Strategies" provides in his text, "Conflict as manageable is a proposition supported and illustrated by the Thomas-Kilmann model, an adaptation of which is shown in Figure 10.1 (p. 121)".
Contrasting the three texts offered here comes to identifying the style of writing of the individual author within the context of academic writing presented in the three chapters. Frehse's (2003) and Tyson's (1998) writings discussed here show distinct personal style in reaching out to the audiences (academic) they intend but with a distinct focus on how they connect with the reader and this exemplifies the paraphrasing process as a resource of Monash University (2014). Frehse (2003) seeks to address students from a perspective engaging the reader as an individual. He connects one-on-one by using the familiar, "Discovering your purpose may involve nothing more than changing the view of the job you have (p.59)." Tyson (1998) on the other hand uses the style engaging the reader as a part of the group since both of the objects of the two chapters remain directed at professional group work and addressing group conflict. "The processes that underlie group development fall into two realms that continuously seek to co-exist with as little of conflict as possible (Tyson, 1998, p.5).
Conclusion
As posited in the introduction section, using comparison and contrasting analysis on Frehse's (2003), "Manage Your Own Career -Reinvent Your Job" and Tyson's (1998) "Working with Groups" and "Managing Conflict," offers the opportunity for examining the characteristics of academic writing with non-academic writing. At the same time examples of the in text, paraphrased, and direct quote exemplifies further understanding of academic writing.
References
Frehse, W. (2003). Manage Your Own Career -Reinvent Your Job. Resources Manual. Pearson Education, Australia, Chapter 4. p.38
Manash University. (2014). Monash Academic Writing. Retrieved from
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/general/academic/index.xml
Tyson, T. (1998). Working with Groups, (Resources Manual. Macmillan Education, Melbourne
Australia, Chapter 10. Managing Conflict. p. 56
