Analysis of Audience, Purpose, and Context
The aspect of communication proves to be a very fundamental element in the transfer and receipt of information from one agent to the other in pursuit of an effective way of undertaking operations. It’s of great importance to scrutinize the audience, purpose, and context in achieving a successful technical communication; first, the analysis of the audience makes it easier for the person passing the information to ensure that he/she designs the course of such communication to suit the audience’s level of understanding, beliefs, attitudes and interests. When an individual addressing a given audience does not keep in consideration such critical aspects of his/her audience, then he/she is likely to face resistance, and failure to be given attention and thus no effective communication. Secondly, the purpose of communication becomes equally significant to analyze as it is inevitable to understand the reason for communicating with another party. This is encapsulated in identifying the what the person who is communicating wants to accomplish, and what exactly is expected next of the recipient of such communication. Lastly, the context analysis is crucial as it entails conceptualized interpretations of a given communication process by defining a starting point and the focus of the entire initiative towards achieving the intended objectives.
Different audiences might change the course of communication in terms of tone changing, allusion to what appeals to a specific audience’s beliefs, interests, and attitudes. Likewise, when the purpose of communication has changed, then what is supposed to be accomplished by such a communication changes and the expected reaction of the audience after receiving such communication will automatically be different. On the other hand, a different context of communication creates a totally different course of action, meaning, and outcomes of the pursued technical communication.
The Design4Practice program has offered me a great platform of showcasing the capstone experience I have gained in my engineering practice. I have got the opportunity to primarily address such practice and expertise to varied audiences including the corporate institutions with engineering elements, governments, and even donor organizations through exhibition of creative problem-solving, and technical knowledge and skills. The EGR 386w might consequentially lead to a change of my audience in a number of ways. First, the aspect of engineering design would result in collaboration with other engineering institutions and thus making my audience to be composed of engineering professionals. Secondly, this course gives emphasis on working in effective interdisciplinary teams, and this makes another technical audience of scholars to engage in discussions and teamwork.
Clear, Concise, and Comprehensive Communication
Maintaining a clear, concise and comprehensive communication within a technical field like engineering is faced with a number of drawbacks. The process of data collection may encounter language barrier from a critical party to such information and therefore compromising the quality, comprehensiveness, and accuracy of the information collected. Moreover, the individual characteristics may result in lack of achieving the clear, concise, and comprehensive communication balance due to concerns of listening skills, awareness, and a possible form of disability. Of course, I had struggled with this balance before about a year ago when I had gone for my industrial attachment. The chief engineer in the plant I was assigned was a Chinese, and we could not effectively communicate in English to make me have a full understanding of the entire production process we were assigned to monitor.
Ethical Communication
Ethical communication within the context of engineering is basically the presentation of ideas and information with recognition to upholding desirable societal standards, norms, and morals. Ethics further keeps in consideration the engineering obligations to the profession, clients and any other stakeholder within such an operational framework.
Technical communication might be considered unethical in a number of ways. First, its’ professionally recommended to make reference to the sources of your information in order to give acknowledge of the pioneers of such technical knowledge. Secondly, technical communication becomes unethical when it doesn’t give particular consideration to the environmental impact, health, life and other rights of human beings. Thirdly, the engineers can be unethical when they fail to uphold the professional prestige, proper discharge of such expertise, and fail to maintain a professional demeanor built on honesty, justice, fortitude, ability temperance and with the consciousness of social good. Ethics remain a fundamental concern to engineers as they find it embedded in engineering code of conduct and the recognition to work and exercise the engineering profession with the commitment to serve the community at their best.
Technical Writing Conventions
The technical writhing conventions that I have found challenging is grammar. The construction of a pure mistake-free grammar became challenging as English is not my first language. I intend to correct this challenge by doing a lot of reading and writing in order to get well conversant with the English language to the best of my ability.
