WHY EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IS IMPORTANT TO ME

As a university student, communication with different group of people is one of the essential parts of campus life.  Therefore, effective communication skills are much needed to make me more comprehensive to others as well as to understand others more precisely.  Since communication involves two parties, I will explain why effective communication skills are important to me in two different perspectives --- message sender and receiver.

First, as a message sender in a conversation, it is important to make your point clear to others.  If the message you are trying to send is ambiguous or hard to interpret, it is very difficult for others to understand.  As an engineering student, we usually work in teams.  Therefore it is important to make your points clear so that you can convey the message to the team to achieve the same goal.  Being a foreign student who uses English as a second language, I tend to misuse certain words as they have different meanings in different context.  With better communication skills, it helps me to focus on the correct ideas I want the others to understand.

Secondly, as a message receiver, you need to capture the essence of the dialogue and the underlined meaning of the speaker.  With further study in effective communication skills, I would be able to focus on the main point of the speech as well as to seize the non-verbal or para-verbal part of the conversation so that I can understand more precisely what the speaker wants to convey. 

In summary, effective communication skills are a set of asset that one would really need to acquire when he or she goes off to the society.  Therefore, it is very important for me to learn better effective communication skills.