Exploring Writing Process

It has been a great opportunity for me to have Ms. Liu as my interviewer about accounting. Personally, she is an excellent accountant who works in a co-operation company in China. Also, many of other companies are willing to have her works for them, but she refused. Instead, she sometimes having speeches about finance management or house financial keeping all over the China. In this way, she writes her own speech drafts, annual financial announcement, and summary by herself.

In order to know how Ms. Liu writes on papers, she showed me step-by-step strategy, and provided me some examples towards writing major tasks. Firstly, as she mentioned, target audience is the first tasks need to find. For example, if she is giving a speech for families and households, what she writes is mainly towards how to manage their personal money safely and properly, and how important is to journalizing the daily merchandise expenses and revenue. Otherwise, as companies as the target audience, it is more important to talk about circulating fund and fixed funds in order to run the company steadily. Secondly, you need to find the main issues in the groups that you are talking to, and then lists its pros and cons as the solution. Thirdly, if it is an annual summary, the paper should be more likely like a report that talks about the trends during the year, when we met the big bumps and when we had a fluency periods. Also, to write the improvements in the future year is also an important task. Otherwise, companies and households would not have a target aims and high expectation for future years.

Compare to Ms. Liu’s writing process to others we have discussed in class, there are some similarities and differences. Speaking widely, both writing process that I learned is to find the target audience and the facts. Also, it is important to brainstorming and draw conclusion after you find your specific audience. However, in Ms. Liu’s reports and speech drafts, she rarely uses other’s words as part of her paper, and what she does always is to speak to her own experiences and opinions. Oppositely, when we learn how to write the research paper, it is improper to have our own opinions and experiences in the paper. Instead, it would be better if we use information and data that are from official websites, people in profession, and textbooks.

To sum up, Ms. Liu taught me variety of information about her field of working, and strategies to write reports. Also, it is incredible to see how differently and similarly our type of writing process compared to the type that people in profession uses.