In the following three activities, you will find various excerpts written by experts in a specific technical area. Their main audience includes a wide range of educated people-both technical and non-technical.

Although they believe their writing was fine, their supervisors have advised them to make their message understood by both audience types.

The technical audience is well-educated and has a good understanding of the technical content in their fields. Although the non-technical audiences are also well-educated, their understanding of the technical terms is limited.

Try to select the most appropriate options so that the experts can communicate to each audience most effectively.

Guide

• It’s important to cut your language down to the essential message you want to get across to your readers; but make sure you include enough level of details your audience is expecting.
• Keep the key information (such as the main topic of a discussion) to the left of a sentence.