Chapter 3714

Just with their educational background, they could teach him how to write articles?

However, the articles written by this Mayor Su were not bad; he was worthy of being a top student from the Chinese Department of Jiangcheng University. Although Dong Ziqian was arrogant, he had read Su Xinghui's articles last night and still admired this point in his heart. He was not a person who told lies.

Looking at Dong Ziqian's unconvinced face, Su Xinghui said, "Are you unconvinced? Then fine, here are a few materials written by the veteran secretaries in the office. You'll know where your gap is after looking at them."

Su Xinghui casually took a few materials and threw them to Dong Ziqian, letting him look.

Dong Ziqian began to look at those materials. Su Xinghui said, "The biggest taboo in official document writing is showing off. To put it bluntly, the bit of literary talent in this material of yours, I could have written when I was ten years old. Many of the veteran comrades in the office have published articles in newspapers in their spare time. What do you have to show off?"

"Official document writing needs to be plain and accurate. What to encourage and what to curb, what to support and what to oppose, what is allowed to be done and what is not allowed to be done, whether to praise or criticize, whether to affirm or deny, whether to advocate or forbid, whether to act or stop—it must be very distinct. Moreover, the cited data and facts must be true and reliable; you cannot imagine them. It also needs to have logic, conciseness, and standardization; you cannot mess around."

"Look at how others write their materials, and then compare them with your material. Your material looks very literary, but this is a kind of showing off. Moreover, have you verified the data and facts listed in it? In addition, you don't have a clear theme throughout the whole piece; the beginning and end don't match, there is no logic to speak of, the wording and phrasing are too wordy, and the format is even more non-standard..."

Su Xinghui's long and eloquent critique made sweat break out on Dong Ziqian's back. He compared his own material with those of the veteran comrades and listened to Su Xinghui's critique, and he could see where the gap lay. He had written his article as if it were an essay, expressing quite a few of his own untimely sentiments. Now, after hearing Su Xinghui's critique, how childish those sentiments were!

Su Xinghui continued, "If you can't even write an official document and material well, what is the use of your high educational background? I might as well use the veteran comrades who graduated from middle school. At least, they can write high-quality official documents and materials for me."

The strength of those veteran comrades was indeed in writing official document materials. They had written this for their whole lives. As long as the leader gave a theme, they could quickly write a high-quality official document material without needing Su Xinghui to worry too much. Of course, they would also leave some wrong words for the leader to change, showing the leader's level.

This was the unique wisdom of veteran comrades in the agency. They knew that while materials must be written well, they couldn't be too perfect, leaving no room for the leader to demonstrate their ability. The learning in this was immense; Dong Ziqian couldn't learn it in a day or two.

I don't know if it was because the heating in Su Xinghui's office was too hot, but Dong Ziqian was sweating profusely. He carefully read his material again and said to Su Xinghui, "Mayor Su, I know now. I'll go back and revise it again."

Watching Dong Ziqian go out with his material, Su Xinghui smiled with satisfaction. It seemed that although this Dong Ziqian was arrogant, he was not stupid. If he were the kind of person who was both arrogant and stupid, then he would be hopeless.

Su Xinghui asked him to write materials, of course, to dispel his arrogance and temper his character. He believed that after writing materials for a few days, he would be more honest.

However, Su Xinghui also knew that although Dong Ziqian was temporarily more honest, he might not really look down on this place of Linshan. To truly make him settle down, that was not a matter of a day or two.

Although Su Xinghui had no obligation to discipline Dong Ziqian, after all, he had promised the couple Zheng Hong and Dong Zhongfu. Entrusted by others, he would be loyal to the task, so he still planned to discipline Dong Ziqian well.

If Dong Ziqian could be trained, Linshan City might have another talent. On the surface, Su Xinghui criticized Dong Ziqian's articles as worthless, but Dong Ziqian was still very talented. Su Xinghui still appreciated him in his heart. After all, Dong Ziqian's parents both came from the news front, and he had family heritage in this regard.

This afternoon, the next draft revised by Dong Ziqian was sent over by Weng Jingyao. This time, Dong Ziqian had clearly sought advice from the veteran comrades. His material had greatly improved; the previous showing off had been restrained, and his material was closer to a qualified official document.

Su Xinghui still marked a few places and asked Dong Ziqian to revise them again. Just like this, Dong Ziqian's first official document material went through six drafts before it was finally recognized by Su Xinghui.

In the following days, Dong Ziqian was writing materials every day. Su Xinghui didn't take Dong Ziqian with him when he went out. He wanted to use this way to temper Dong Ziqian's character, letting him be able to settle down. In fact, if he could settle down, there were still many things to learn in the agency.

If he couldn't even endure this, then Dong Ziqian's future achievements would stop there.