Professional Language Skills of Purposive Communications Students in Pangasinan State University
Abstract
Professional language plays a vital role in purposive communication especially in the field of technical writing. This descriptive study determined the professional language skills of purposive communication students of Pangasinan State University- San Carlos City Campus as influenced by their technical writing outputs particularly in politeness of expressions and accurate use of mechanics. The respondents in the study were 100 freshmen students who were selected using probability sampling design, specifically, simple random sampling. Survey questionnaire was utilized as the main instruments to support and further verify the information gathered. Frequency and percentage counts were utilized as statistical tools.
Results revealed that majority of the respondents are female adolescent and are enrolled as Bachelor of Science in Office Administration. Further, the respondents are good with regards to their professional language skills in technical writing along politeness of expressions. Moreover, along accurate use of mechanics the respondents notched fair level of technical writing performance. Hence, the profile variable specifically on the sex of the respondents has a significant relation to the accurate use of mechanics in technical writing.
It is humbly recommended that the Pangasinan State University – San Carlos Campus should include additional enhancement writing activities on the usage of politeness of expressions and accurate use of mechanics in writing of its Purposive Communication students in every program course.
Further, providing support to strengthen the utilization of basic writing technique to help improve the knowledge and business communication writing skills of the students.
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