COMMUNICATION-2

 COMMUNICATION-2

Achieving Clarity -2

 Domains to consider:            

a] Significance:

Professions of Teaching and Legal exposition demand utmost clarity more as a need

of  enlightening the recipients. The term enlightening is employed to convey  the effort

 of unraveling the intricacies shrouding a truth.  The occasions cited here [academy

and  judiciary] differ in the kind of exposition called for, as the recipients learn to

gather  respectively the basic truth and righteousness. On both occasions, the effort of

formulating an idea deserves absolute clarity. Largely, the acceptability of the exponent

[the teacher or the advocate] hinges on the efficacy of the performer as a ‘clarifying agent’.

 The exercise is quite intense as the performer has to be logical in assembling of facts,

Clarity  and continuity of facts to achieve cohesive totality.  Both situations demand

‘reaching’ the minds in quick time and least effort.

 Laborious efforts fail to convince and unfailingly irritate the recipient. So, clarity in

 expression must be a routine component of interaction.   

Another domain of communication is the print medium. Fortunately a greater degree

 of ‘freedom to consult’ exists with Writers and Editors. All facets, facts, grammar 

and elegance of presentation can be thoroughly ascertained before publication. In the 

case of verbal exposition all such critical elements are a part of the homework; the 

 exponent has to train self for spontaneous clarification or rebuttals for safeguarding

 the chosen theme. Print medium carries the innate advantage of repeated consultation 

and utility as reference for posterity. In view of these, those handling print media 

need to uphold all the values of communication. They are morally obliged to the society; 

the society largely accepts the printed matter as the most authentic besides as evidence. 

At times, when we encounter lapses in print, it proves Herculean to convince readers of 

the fallibility in content or language. Sadly, such lapses are ‘accepted’ as right while there

 is an unintended violation of right.  The reference ‘violation’ is meant to highlight 

how sacrosanct a ‘printed item’ is.

b] Care in communication:

Irrespective of the type of medium, communicators must strive for perfection-- 

as communication has to be educative; lest it should recede to insignificance and turn 

guilty of indifference. Also, any unwary recipient might ‘take’ to such usages placing 

 faith on the communicator. Thus, wrong usages come into practice and keep 

spreading unabated. Essentially, care of every component like the word, its different 

forms, relevance for an occasion and aptness shall be thoroughly understood. Talking 

of ‘care’ we are at a critical phase of eliminating ‘wrong items’ from our usages. One of 

the ways of exercising the spirit is to cultivate the habit of ‘first hand ascertaining’ 

of relevance of expressions.  The most reliable of practices is to consult 

authentic Dictionaries on the subject; further strengthening of our understanding 

 the ‘applicability’ is to follow the lectures and writings of learned authors. Another 

source is the visual medium where some channels enjoy acceptance because of 

their geographic advantage of ‘language culture’.

All such ‘sources’, help in better tuning of our communication skills. A word or two 

need being reiterated here of the dangers of ‘assuming’ some usages. Often words of 

like-structure and sound mean totally unconnected items; to infer meanings based

 on ‘similarities’ is the surest way of ending up in a mess.  As for instance, 

‘judicious’ /‘judicial’ mean very different items as are  ‘Pocket’ / ‘Packet’. There are 

several such like-sounding terms which have nothing in common between 

them. Communicators have to weigh the likelihood of the ‘impact’ upon learners /

readers who believe that the author would not make mistakes. Such diabolic prospects 

can be avoided by bestowing attention on to all forms of communication. 

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