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

• Abbreviations can make your sentences simple and compact, but make sure your audience is familiar with them.
• If you think your audience may not be familiar with certain abbreviations, spell out the full term and put its abbreviations in parentheses.