Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Missing Communication

Last night, I was going through pages of Plant Physiology by Ross & Salisbury. I came up with a box entitled “Must We Write? by Page W Morgan. The objective was why and how to write? It was in interesting comprehension in terms of both content and purpose.

It’s not surprising to me when I found the box stating that most of the science students find writing and communicating rather a useless time spending (which view I used to hold as well ;)). He put down some arguments against this. I think he was quite clear in his points.

I don’t like verbal communication with lots of people in general. But not sure what would be my attitude if the subject of communication is unknown to most of the listeners (Somehow I’ve the feeling that I will enjoy then.) But writing stuffs was never that irritating and boring to me.

Reading that article, I felt we miss one thing badly here in Bangladesh. It’s the lack of opportunities in developing communicating skills. There isn’t much we can do as students. In our department, DJ is trying to do something new. But I don’t like her approach. Anyway, everyone has his/her own style. We must learn to respect others. That’s one of the things we all have to learn.