Written Assignment 6: Adapting a Style

Gong and Dragga demonstrate the importance of recognizing your own writing style and the reasons for sometimes adapting a different style to suit your purpose, the audience, and the situation.

In an essay of about 400 words, explain how you would adapt for a general audience a piece of technical or specialized writing (from an academic subject, professional field, or special interest publication). Discuss specifically how you would determine choices of vocabulary, sentence length, and sentence structure in making this adaptation.

Reread the narratives at the beginning of Chapters 1 and 3. Review the information on sentence structure and types of sentences in the online sites.