You want to be taken seriously? Talk like.

[Hall McClenahan]

OK, now a rant from a loyal reader who is just frustrated and tired .......
It does not take much. We do not need to be English majors, but we should be able to converse with minimal grammatical errors. Learn a new word, even if it is one a week. Using it in a report, or in conversation, that may better express what we are trying the reader to understand. It will be more effective and perhaps impress the client and make them understand that we are better than average, .............10-4, end of rant.

Good morning John. Did you mean just like the highlighted portion of your original post?

Sorry, it just gave me a chuckle.

 

[Couch Potato]

I note your advice(while good, thanks) did not include the use of this forum. Am I free to assume that you would not include the use of this forum as a viable way to gain competence?

I think the forum is a good place to identify areas of one's incompetence, which in turn should lead to a higher level of competence. The forum helps one identify areas where there is no "right" answer accepted by all. Nobody giving advice here is correct 100% of the time. Making a decision solely based on what one read in this forum would be a mistake, but failing to take advantage of the resources on this forum would be a bigger mistake.

Like any source of information, verify with other sources. :new_smile-l:

 

[Doug Smith SRA]

It's the math!

Take the mean of SAT scores for appraisers and the mean of the math scores will be higher than the verbal scores.

While some may be "loosers" when it comes to verbal skills, appraisers will generally run circles around most when it comes to math skills.

Very rarely are math skills evidenced on this forum but math skills make the appraiser. Verbal skills are important to communicate results but if an appraiser is weak in math, it does not matter how well results are communicated.

In the main, e-mail and forums such as this one have been a boon to improving communication. Most appraisers have significantly improved their writing skills and their ability to express ideas due to forums such as these. With instant feed back, participants soon learn to express their ideas more clearly. Few appraisers use old language such as "pursuant to your request" since that is not the way appraisers e-mail a person or write on this forum.

On the subject of competency, appraisers learn better by learning from others. Greater opportunities for networking is probably the best way to learn. Unfortunately, Internet CE is is removing these opportunities so forums such as these are a reasonable substitute and full cooperation is best encouraged rather than discouraged by the over-critical.

Doug

 

[Couch Potato]

Take the mean of SAT scores for appraisers and the mean of the math scores will be higher than the verbal scores.

While some may be "loosers" when it comes to verbal skills, appraisers will generally run circles around most when it comes to math skills.

The personal interactions I've had with appraisers indicate your statements to be false. Beginning with the instructor I had for my introductory appraisal classes through 2 out of the 3 supervisors I had, their verbal skills far exceeded their math skills. The instructor struggled with adding three numbers together.

The simple truth is most appraisers have probably never taken the SAT. :new_all_coholic:

 

[Stone]

The simple truth is most appraisers have probably never taken the SAT. :new_all_coholic:

Particularly in the parts of the country where the ACT is used by more universities. :new_smile-l:

 

[Lawrence R.]

The personal interactions I've had with appraisers indicate your statements to be false. Beginning with the instructor I had for my introductory appraisal classes through 2 out of the 3 supervisors I had, their verbal skills far exceeded their math skills. The instructor struggled with adding three numbers together.

The simple truth is most appraisers have probably never taken the SAT. :new_all_coholic:

My verbal wayyyyyy outshines my math score, but that was some time ago.

 

[MARK JOLLIFF]

10-4 End of English lesson. Glass houses, Mr. Marshall.

I agree with everything he said. I also knew that someone would find a typo or a mistake and use it to discredit everything he said. Congratulations on being the first. He could have incorrectly spelled each word and still would have made a wonderful point. If your doctor was 5 foot tall and weighed 650lbs you would still listen to him/her if they said you'd be dead in a week without exercise. I also don't see how he was throwing any stones in his glass house.

 

[Lawrence R.]

I agree with everything he said. I also knew that someone would find a typo or a mistake and use it to discredit everything he said. Congratulations on being the first. He could have incorrectly spelled each word and still would have made a wonderful point. If your doctor was 5 foot tall and weighed 650lbs you would still listen to him/her if they said you'd be dead in a week without exercise. I also don't see how he was throwing any stones in his glass house.

Well, where I come from, we lead by example. Saying don't be late to work is always the right thing to say, you just lose your standing to proclaim it when you are late the day you make that speech.


Go bark at someone else, your point is moot.

 

[Lawrence R.]

Coincidentally,

I agree with everything he said.

This condoning the "do as I say and not as I do" attitude is way too prevalent these days.

The idea that he didn't even manage to proof read a 200 +/- word paragraph leads me to beleive the OP is not the arbiter of what is professional enough and what is not. I don't discredit his reasoning, just his "authority" to say it.

There is an old misquoted book and people think it says "Judge not."

It actually says (paraphrased) Don't judge unless you are prepared to be judged by the same standards you used to come to your judgment in the first place.

He judged, he set the standard, he failed to meet it. Simple as that.

 

[Offshore]

I think 98% of you people would benefit from both a remedial English class and a Dale Carnegie course.