practice translating engineering concepts for different audiences and requires you to think about how we use language to convey ideas. Choose a topic that you are familiar with from your major and practice adapting your writing for three audiences:
Nonexperts: these readers should include anyone who is not an expert in your own field: high-school students, college students, the general public, even people with advanced non-technical degrees. (Do not write for audiences younger than high-school students.)
Experts / peers: as the phrase indicates, this audience should include people with a very similar technical background as yours, which means you can assume they have some familiarity with your subject, but you should still obviously ensure you’re not omitting important details.
Executives / administrators: this audience should include people high up within an organization who are likely more interested in “big picture” ideas: e.g., developing the concepts you discuss into marketable/sellable products or devoting research funding to a new lab or degree program. These readers could also include, e.g., people who actually do have an engineering or scientific background but who have not practiced actual hands-on engineering in many years (because they have moved into administration).
