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The document discusses writing technical descriptions for different audiences. It notes that when crafting documents for audiences, writers must consider the audience's culture, language abilities, education, income level, interest in the topic, and existing knowledge of the topic. These factors will influence the tone, word choice, sentence structure, and length used. The document instructs the reader to write two contrasting technical descriptions about the same topic - one aimed at novices and one for experts. The purpose is to give experience adapting writing for specific audiences.

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Who is writing to whom? What does the audience know, need to
know, and want to know? When your audience fails to
understand the text, you have failed to communicate.
You are being asked to write two technical descriptions about
the same topic, but for different audiences. One description will
be directed at novices and the other at experts. As you begin
this assignment there are several things you will need to take
into consideration. Some of these items include:
Culture
Language abilities
Education
Income Level
Interest in product/process/topic
Knowledge of product/process/topic
Each of the above items will influence the way craft your
document. They will influence your tone, word choice, sentence
structure, and even sentence length. Remember, one of the most
important goals of any technical writing assignment is audience
engagement. What engages you?
https://www.umuc.edu/writingcenter/writingresources/writing_f
or_audiences.cfm
For this assignment you will write contrasting technical
descriptions. The purpose of this assignment is to give you

experience in adapting a piece of technical writing to a specific
audience. The assignment consists of two short independent
pieces.
Choose something that you know a lot about, but which would
probably not be familiar to a broad, general audience. It could
be anything from an abstract concept, to a technique, a skill, an
object, or an activity.
Don't forget intext citation, reference page.

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