In the following three activities, you will find various excerpts written by experts in a specific technical area.

Although they believe their writing was fine, their supervisors have advised them to make their message understood by non-technical audiences too.

These non-technical audiences are well-educated, but their understanding of the technical terms is limited.

Try to select the most appropriate options so that the experts can communicate to the non-technical audience most effectively.

Guide

• Avoid using abstract words.
• Try to use words that your audience is familiar with.
• Place the key information that should be emphasized as the subject of your sentence.
• Imperfect passive voice sentences (where no actors are present) are sometime more appropriate when the subject must be emphasized.