Response to reading Chapters-1,20,22

When reading the first chapter it is easy to see the outcome they would like you leave with when your finished reading it. The main message is to make sure that you have a good understanding of the person or persons that will be reading you writing. It is important that you do this because you are trying to communicate your thoughts through writing which has a much different result than verbal communication. You need to know the audience that is reading you writing because they may not understand or know about certain things and may take things in a different context than you intend. Also they talk about ethics and making sure that your writing abides by the readers ethical background so that you don't offend or confuse them.
The other main point in this chapter is to distinguish the differences between writing done at school and in the workplace. A good point I read was that when a professor reads a students writing their main focus or most often the only focus is on the students comprehension of the subject matter. While a writing in the work place most often has the intention of influencing the reader into agreeing or accepting your ideas. While grammar is very important in both areas for communicating the proper idea and is expected you can have perfect grammar along with poor communication and understanding of the central point.

Chapter 20 focususes on on letters memo's and emails. They have a list of important guidelines that are very helpful when writing these types of messages. A major part is on the customary way to write a memo, letter, or email. Some of the important things were having the right format, making your message "reader centered", and making sure you that the main idea is provided quickly and with the right amount of information. Providing information is essential but providing too much or unnecessary information can cause the reader to lose focus. Thats why you need to know your reader so that you don't break things down too much or not enough and make them feel stupid or ignorant. Essentially this chapter gives the customary way along with a few tips to make your message more effective and helping to provide you with an advantage over the reader.

Chapter 22 takes one of the guidelines from chapter 21 and goes further indepth on the subject matter of making you writing reader focused. The use this guideline with a proposal to help you make your proposal more effective. Because most often the reader of a letter is an investor or a client who intends to give you money for a good or service you want them to accept your proposal. This chapter gives you knowledge about the typical things the reader expects to see. They define four things and also provide tips for making them more beneficial to you. First thing is to clearly define the problem that you are proposing to solve which is actually the most important step in solving a problem is to clearly define the problem that you need to solve. Second the discuss the solution that you will give. You want your solution to be appealing and cacth the interest of the reader. Third and most often the most important to the reader is the cost. How much overall and sometimes a breakdown as well as a timeline. Last the discuss capability of you to do the job. You need to make the reader feel confident and safe that you will complete the solution that you propose and that it will be done to their expectations.

This book has alot of great information about writing in the real world. I skimmed some of the chapters and I expect that I will be learning a great deal of invaluable information to help me in my future.