Multimedia technologies in building professionally oriented written skills of IT specialists

Abstract

The article reveals the peculiarities of written English professionally oriented communication of IT specialists. In the framework of the main situ-ations of written English professionally oriented communication (business cor-respondence, correspondence with colleagues and managers) the functions of the communication realize: contact, information, inducing, cognitive, emotive, influencing ones and fence-mending. The genres of written English professio-nally oriented communication of IT specialists include: private and business e-mail correspondence, texting in chats and forums, posting on net announ-cement boards, memo, and reports. The main types of this communication are formal (communication with colleagues), semi-formal and formal communica-tion (communication with suppliers, clients, managers), analytical and scientific communication (reports). Each type of communication has its peculiar stylistic feature concerning lexical and grammatical presentation.

Keywords

• written English professionally oriented communication
• IT specialists
• functions and duties
• correspondence
• genres
• types of communications