Evaluation Metrics: An Explicit Outcome to Foster Engineering Students’ Writing Skills

Abstract

In our world of social media posting, texting, email communications, blogs and beyond, good writing is essential to convey the messages effectively. Good writing is fundamentally good thinking that follows a logical path and forces to organize thoughts. In this age of text messaging, business communication increasingly demands a firm grasp on writing skill. Writing skills ensure effective business communication. It helps the professionals to have good company connect with their partners and stakeholders. Everything that professionals write must be tailored in a proficient, comprehensive, and informative. Professionals must be good at composing clear messages. In this digitalized era, Good writing skills are valued everywhere and build a solid web presence. At this situation, improving writing skills of professional students has become mountainous task. The present study aims at evaluation pattern followed in engineering colleges with a detailed analysis and suggesting ways to bridge the gap between what is delivered and what they actually evaluate to develop the writing skill of the engineers.