Standards of Professional Communication

This blogpost was given in letter style.

Two fellow coursemates of ES2007S were engaged in meaningful debate over what constituted standards of professional communication. Accordingly, let us earnestly investigate what those standards appear like.

I thought Michelle and Jake were discussing about the issue of 'what is justice'? Arguments about standard or not were really arguments about what's just or not. And since I knew that justice was moderation in excellence, therefore something that was standard must also had been likewise. Standard must have been moderation and vice versa. Communications skills too outdated weren't any good; but neither were those that were far too sophisticated to a fault! As mentioned in my first assignment post, the standard of effective communication must therefore always be a synthesis of conflicting values which was then the standard it achieved. With that, you could argue that spewing vulgarities was somewhat appropriate, if we did it in moderation, which was to consider the interpersonal context and circumstances.

With regards to who decided the standards, you needed to first understand the nature of politics, or so I thought. But since Brad vehemently objected to any response concerning politics and the like, I shall not go much into it. In fact, when I mentioned justice above, I was really talking about politics! But it was right to say the people who were in power decided the standard, or what was acceptable and not. Yes---they were not perfect because they were human agents, but still they must have had something distinct in terms of personality, achievement, experience and the like, and their judgements should rightly be held in high regard then. Their judgements weren't perfect ideals, rather they were more next-best sort of perfect, and they were constantly refining their agencies to account for inconsistencies. And by so doing, they arrived at the standard, precisely because they had accounted for all inconsistencies, and found that ideal balance between them or moderation.

Finally, when Jake mentioned about standards having cultural currencies, he couldn't have been closer to the truth!

Why?

Standards were justice entities who themselves were social constructs. And since culture was a subset of social, Jake's statement was invulnerable to vandalism!

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