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Assignment 2 - Kareena Kapoor

THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME MANAGEMENT
“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it” -Stephen R. Covey
What is time management? Why should one manage time? And how one can achieve a good and healthy professional life? Here we will open a discussion to answer all the questions. According to Mind Tools, an organization dealing with essential skills with career, “Time management” is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between specific activities. We all get 24 hours, why is that some people achieve so much more with their time than others? The answer lies in good time management.
It is rightly said that “time and tide wait for none”. Hence the consequence of getting left behind appears. As an example, if you are working in a translation company and you miscalculate the time to do the project the possibility of getting stressed is higher and as a result, our quality of work will get decreased.
Content Writer’s perspective
Being a content writer is a job to provide content for the reader to see and use, but not necessarily just an article or something worth read, but also it needs to be enjoyable and later be used as knowledge resource material, just like the way it is in Modlingua Rubrics. It is definitely not an easy task to do. It needs a high professional level on time management and writing skill as the job demands punctuation and quality at the same time. Why would time matter on writing contents? In a content writer’s life, each minute, each second, counts as a platform for getting ideas, formulating plans, researching and read the material before producing contents and actually writing the article. Take a scenario where one does not value time in writing contents, disaster waits ahead! One will feel stressed and anxious as the deadline to submit to the editor is approaching but barely a research has been done. Here we can see the importance, how crucial it is to have a time management skill, we need to divide the time wisely for each portion of the task, from research to final proofread the works, because it will definitely affect the quality of the content that parallelly will lead to the company’s image.
Editor’s perspective
The same applies to the responsibility of editors in content writing. Editor always depends on time, the job is significantly tied with time, as the editor is responsible to give the final touch and making sure the quality of the content before it got published, but of course, deadline applied too. It is an interconnected process when it comes to time management in a company. One department or body will affect each other, bureaucratically, on the notion of time, here, the deadline for the product. A late submission from a content writer will definitely disturb the work of an editor, and later the management board will not be satisfied by it, and the public who is the reader will assume the same too. An editor also needs to follow the guideline and make sure the content writer follows its time pace as well, because it always takes time to proofread, edit, and finally publish an article. Having a nice management of time distribution on each part of the work is always a good idea, and without a doubt will create a sense of satisfaction on the published article or content.
Management’s perspective
Time is money. Using time efficiently will take the quality of work to another level of greatness. Setting milestones is one method to get a task accomplished sans stress. By learning the right techniques of time management and how to invest wisely on it, one can create a professional and healthy working environment that will envelop everybody in the company from the content writer to the management itself.
Modlingua rubric provides the user or the employees with vast knowledge and possibilities to read an article that we can use later on to improve our time management skill. To be precise we can use those articles discussing the efficiency of time of our own interests automatically our work performance will become more efficient and effective.
To close this, a good time management helps to attain more in a short span of time which allows you to get the benefit of learning opportunities, reduce your tension, and helps you to concentrate. Time is a resource which is very precious and limited. If you want to excel, you have to accept the importance of it in the professional life. From management’s point of view, time is money. If one wastes time at the workplace, it means one is doing less work which in turn will affect the company’s growth and one can lose the potential clients or customers. In a professional market, having a good time management is an important skill which will have a positive influence on the environment of the workplace wise, but also at the same time, it improves our daily life as well.
 

Assignment 2 - Amirul Haqqi

Why Everyone Should Start Using Grammarly
 
If you are a student, a writer, a translator and or a content producer, you definitely have some troubles with whether using an Oxford comma or finding right words and checking the grammar manually but still feeling so anxious if it is wrong. Especially, since more than half of the world population uses English as their second language (L2).
It is very common for a writer or content producer to produce errors in writing that later on will be edited in by the editor for any grammar mistakes, syntax, and diction. Plus, the fact that the register of language is different from the spoken and written form. Hence, one needs to really understand how the grammar works. That takes a lot of our time in editing our content. Hence, we need a tool to help us with this.
The emergence of technology in this era is only for one sole reason, which is to help humans in life, whether to provide an easier job or to save time and improve our work quality. The computer has been there for a while and it does a tremendous amount of work that human cannot do in a very detailed complex way but at the same in a very limited amount of time. It is the most efficient way out there, same goes in the field of communication and writing. Without a computer, we need time to produce a single article. Artificial Intelligence comes into the discussion much later.
AI (artificial intelligence) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, here especially computer systems. These processes include learning (the acquisition of information and rules for using the information), reasoning (using the rules to reach approximate or definite conclusions) and self-correction. Particular applications of AI include expert systems, speech recognition, and machine vision, but also in writing field, a grammar and spelling checker, such as Grammarly.
As a student or a content writer, you must have heard of this incredible tool to fix our grammar errors in writing instantly. So, what and how does Grammarly work? And why everyone should use it?
Taken from Grammarly official website, Grammarly is an AI-powered product which helps people communicate more effectively created by a company based in San Francisco, New York, and Kyiv. Millions of users rely on Grammarly every day to make their messages, documents, and social media posts clear, mistake-free, and impactful.
Grammarly automatically detects grammar, spelling, punctuation, word choice, and style mistakes in your writing and provides correction with detailed explanation on why your writing is wrong. Hence, not only it corrects us, it also helps us in learning and getting habituated by the rules. It is very easy to use. Copy and paste any English text into Grammarly’s Editor, or install Grammarly’s free browser extension for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge. Or even better, download the software and it will automatically add in Ms. Office and Outlook for a faster usage. Grammarly’s algorithms note potential errors in the text and provide context-specific corrections for grammar, spelling, wordiness, style, punctuation, syntax, diction and even plagiarism.
Further reasons why everyone needs to use this tool is that Grammarly helps students achieve academic goals and improve their writing in essays, reports, articles, and dissertations. Professionals, such as content writers, use Grammarly to provide expert help and instant feedback on the accuracy, impact, and credibility of their English writing in a variety of fields, such as academia, marketing, and journalism. Since the content has been already corrected by AI, human Editor can proofread and double check for further editing and it definitely saves time rather than doing it from scratch.
But what are the impacts if we use an AI-tool to correct our grammar? As a student, it definitely helps with the accuracy of the assignment, it also saves time to edit, it provides a more professional and easy to read outlook of the work, a stress-free spell check. With a good content, it also mirrors the knowledge of the writer and helped them gaining confidence. For a content writer, it allows the production of the best writing, professional, fast and time-saver, and consecutively helps building image and quality. For the editor, it means less work, so one can channel his time to other work and focus more on that, and also easily helped the quality improvement process.
 
 

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