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“I’m Not Going to Be a Writer”
You may not be entering a field in which you are a professional communicator, but in whatever field you enter, you are a communicating professional.
What Does it Mean to Write in My Field?
To effectively enter your voice in conversation with others in your field, it is important to understand how the conversation is taking place and what the topics of discussion are. In professional writing, one of the most common ways to understand that conversation is by reviewing publicly available documents like reports and websites. Analyze these documents helps you to understand common conventions of both genre and language that are used within your field.
Is There Anything Common to All Fields?
Yes! Elements of a genre (such as reports) generally remain the same across fields, but those elements may be arranged differently. Lab reports, for example, may vary in structure and content from police reports or financial reports, but they all include areas that function in similar ways. Additionally, knowing how to write an effective email is important in all fields.
Be sure to read chapters 10 and 18! These chapters will help you complete the assignments for this module as well.
For this assignment, you will be sharing what field you hope to go into after school (for example, nursing, sales, agriculture, etc.) You’ll respond four times as described below.
Post One
For your first response, locate online a report in your field (e.g. a police report if your focus is Criminal Justice, an annual financial report if your focus is Accounting, discharge papers or a lab report if your focus is health sciences, etc.). Include the link in your post and write a brief statement that identifies the purpose of the document identifies any primary and secondary audiences for the document discusses how the document is useful to those audiences in terms of its content, organization, and use of language (including clarity and conciseness of message) discusses how the document’s usefulness to those audiences may be improved
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