In the workplace, you write:

  • notes
  • memos
  • letters
  • near miss reports
  • work orders
  • directions
  • emails
  • business plans
  • technical reports
  • training materials
  • specifications
  • journal articles
  • marketing materials
  • information circulars
  • pamphlets
  • meeting minutes
  • accident reports
  • shift reports
  • log book entries
  • grievances
  • performance reviews
  • production reports
  • case notes
  • proposals

Some considerations:

  • purpose and content of the writing
  • audience for the writing (including plain language principles)
  • limitations (personal abilities, environmental, time constraints, system constraints)
  • the style and structure of the writing (including tone)
  • the correctness of the writing (spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.)
Numeracy

Numeracy involves:

  • the worker’s use of numbers
  • a critical awareness which builds bridges between mathematics and the real-world with all its diversity
  • abilities that include interpreting, applying, and communicating mathematical information in commonly encountered situations to enable full, critical and effective participation in a wide range of life roles
  • the worker’s being required to think in quantitative terms
  • the knowledge and skills required to effectively manage the mathematical demands of diverse situations
  • an individual’s ability to identify, to understand, to make well-founded judgements about, and to act towards the roles that mathematics plays in dealing with the world, as needed for that worker’s current and future life as a constructive, concerned and reflective citizen
  • the confidence necessary to make effective use of whatever mathematical skill and understanding is possessed
  • the worker’s ability to manage a situation or solve a problem in a real context, to respond to information about mathematical ideas that may be represented in a range of ways, to activate a range of enabling behaviours and processes