‘More Effective Communication’ – A Manual for Professionals is written by ‘J.V. Vilanilam’. Dr J.V. Vilanilam was formerly Vice-Chancellor at University of Kerala, he also worked as Professor and Head of Department of Communication and Journalism at University of Kerala.
In today’s world, there is a tough competition in every field. Communication plays a very important role in every sector. Effective communication skills are very important for professionals to achieve their desired goals or targets. In this book, J.V. Vilanilam has covered all the important elements of communication. Understanding the basic concepts of communication is really very important, understanding these concepts will help the professionals to communicate proficiently. The writer has included all the significant aspects of written as well as oral communication in this book.
J.V. Vilanilam is telling us about the importance of communication. How communication is important in organizational and Business level. He also focused and mentioned that how English is important in India in Business communication. Vilanilam also discussed the common errors made during communication. Book also includes making of managerial reports and research reports in business organizations and academic institutes. He told that if you want to make a good report than your facts must be arranged in a proper order. Even if your facts are arranged in proper order or logic, your reports became bad due to grammatical and spelling errors.
Vilanilam discussed about Rudolf Flesch and other experts like Robert Gunning and John McElroy in his book. He told about the advice given by these experts, which is ‘write as you talk’. The writer also discussed about the importance of horizontal and vertical communication in an organization.
Vilanilam also discussed about the routine of middle-level professionals in his book. This includes writing letters to people, writing routine reports, writing special reports, writing articles, participating in daily meetings, planning conferences, etc.
The writer discussed that how the management is done through communication, how people manage things at their office and home, he mentioned that everywhere management is done through communication, without communicating with people managing tasks is not possible. If everyone will communicate effectively and clearly with each other in an organization then everything will be sorted and managing issues will become easy.
Vilanilam discussed the types of mistakes people make during writing, it can be grammatical mistakes, spelling mistakes, punctuation, etc. he also discussed the choice of words, how to choose the right words for effective communication. According to Vilanilam, we should use a dictionary or follow the basic principles of communication to choose the right words for effective communication. The right set of words will make your writing more impressive and will help you to make a good impression on readers.
Vilanilam included every small thing essential for effective communication and writing in his book, like, what are semantics? what are denotative and connotative meanings of the words? Clichés, jargons etc. He also discussed about some spelling rules, punctuation, etc. The book teaches us to make our writing communication more effective by telling how to write letters, reports, memos etc. the general layout of the letter, qualities of good letter everything is present in the Vilanilam’s book.
Requirements for good public speaking like Integrity, voice, volume, pitch, speed of delivery, quality, accent, body language etc. and techniques for oral presentation like eye contact with the audience, self-confidence everything is mentioned in Vilanilam’s book.
The book- ‘ More Effective Communication’ by J.V. Vilanilam will help and guide the readers to make their written and oral communication more effective.
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