From Chapter 1, I got that writing depends on your readers. The way we communicate in the workplace differs from the way we’ll communicate with our peers. The formats of our writing most be effective when choosing the various communication mediums.

The chapter goes into how you must adjust the style and tone of your work for the reader. You only need to tell the reader what they need to know. Do not deviate from your point and stay focused on the main point of the writing. The information given must be useful to the reader.

Chapter 1 goes to great lengths to show us students how writing that you do can be used to communicate to a reader rather than a teacher or professor. It reminds you that the writing you will do in the work place will need to be written in a way that has a purpose to communicate something useful and how the people reading this will digest the information.

Dear class,

Reading chapter one helped me to understand the reader-centered attitude. I have never been great at writing reader-centered. I believe this chapter can help me work on my tone specifically. I am not good at changing my tone in my writing to get my point across. I hope that I can get better at this to improve my writing.

Form this chapter, I got that it is important to adapt according to  the audience. In order to communicate effectively you have to ask yourself what is that you want to communicate, what is the essence of the message you want to convey to the reader. Constantly modifying your writing approach by placing yourself on the reader’s shoes and imagining his/hers reaction.

1)Transitioning or changing styles for each communicational situation is similar to recalibrating mindset when entering an environment.

2) Writing in the professional job world is to tell readers what they need, not what writer knows

3) Ability to create graphics and arranging them to make communication visually appealing.

The reading touched on how  a person’s writing must incorporate a certain style which can grab and persuade an audience. When a person is writing they must be presenting information to a diverse group on individuals whether it is to someone of different nationalities, fields of studies, or departments at work. Due to the need to deliver information to such different groups we must make sure our information is precise and can be clearly understood by those who are not as knowledgeable as your are.

After reading chapter one i found the information very reader oriented. The topic of the communication being useful and persuasive resonates with me. With usefulness we must consider the readers background whether they have the same field you are in or multiple different fields. However in school i am used to making documents that are meant for my teacher and assuming they know the information already. As for persuasiveness characteristics of the reader comes into play. Many factors of the readers are important such as social , political views. It may be more difficult to persuade one mind set then another so organizing the communication to be persuasive to multiple mind sets seems challenging.

While reading chapter 1, I think for me the important points are that we need to be able to convey our thoughts and ideas to other people through writing. If we cannot convey what we want to other people to know then it will be useless. In addition, another point would be that the writing we do in college is very different from the writing style used at the workplace. Furthermore, it is important to to discern and understand to what kind of reader you will be writing to since it will help to reach them and in the end making them able to understand your ideas and thoughts.

I am doing pretty good so far, I find my interested topic, and I know what I am going to find the suitable article to expanded definition of my technical term.  The most difficult for me is how to get from article’s idea to support my opinion.