Part 2- Analysis of Audience, Purpose, and Context
Technical communication is the method of passing scientific, engineering, and other technical information. Therefore, careful analysis of the audience, as well as the purpose and context, is essential since people in different contexts with varied professional identifications can engage in technical communication. Additionally, individuals that are designated as professional writers apply the research techniques during documentation and presentation of technical processes. Regarding the EGR 386w, my audience can change the tone and structure of the document by developing an effective argument.
During the design for practice program, I addressed the expert audience because they are the category of people who are aware of the theory and the products inside and out. That is they are familiar with everything since they possess advanced degrees that can enable them to operate in an academic setting while researching and developing the technological world. However, the non-specialists are not able to understand what is being said due to least reasoning. More often, communication difficulties among the experts can be as well passed to the technicians and executives.
Part 2- Clear, Concise, and Comprehensive Communication
The technical communicators such as engineers always struggle to achieve a clear and comprehensive communication. But this process is sometimes difficult due to the continuous complaint concerning working with the scientists, and the product developers. This is because they are always mocked as socially incompetent outsiders (Hart). However, I have not struggled with this balance before.
Part 3- Ethical Communication
Ethical communication is important in the sense that it improves integrity and excellence of the communicators as they undertake different tasks. Truthful and appropriate communication provide the best ability of honesty. For instance, permission needs to be obtained before using other people's articles. That is the work should not be conducted outside the scope of the client. More importantly, ethical communication recognizes the behaviors in which might be unethical. Therefore, some ethical activities are plagiarism, the deliberate application of ambiguous or an imprecise language, use of misleading values, and promotion of prejudice. The unethical issues may be of great concern to engineers since they are helped through mentoring, instruction, and network. That is ethics acts as conferences as well as the course of improvement among engineers.
Part 4- Technical Writing Conventions
Sincerely, since the objective of good technical writing is to inform more about clarity and precision, the technical writing conventions that I have struggled with is the language and style. However, throughout the EGR 386w semester, I’m hoping to practice the following to improve on this particular convention:
Concise
I will try to avoid long sentences especially those that are having more than four clauses and parts that are confusing the readers. By this, my text will read better after making at least two sentences instead of a single long sentence.
Clarity
I will try to avoid ambiguity and specify what I'm writing.
Correctness
I will counter check the spelling, grammar, as well as punctuation of the sentences to make sure that all sentences are correct. Similarly, I will adopt the use of computer checker to make a proper selection of the words to boost my presentation and the overall marks. But sometimes there may be some minor errors that if not proofread the work in day one, they will be detected after completion of the work. Therefore, I will try to visit any learning resource center concerning the proper use of punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Bibliography
Hart, Geoff. "Geeks Like Us: Managing Technical Communicators Based On Insights Gained From Software Developers". Geoff-hart.com. N.p., 2013. Web. 7 Sept. 2016. <http://www.geoff-hart.com/articles/2013/geeks-like-us.html>.
