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FOCUS ON WHY YOU ARE WRITING Purposes Inform provide information without necessarily expecting any action on the part of my reader(s) Request obtain permission, information, approval, help, or funding give information in the form of directions, instructions, Instruct procedures, or the like Propose suggest a plan of action or respond to a request for a proposal Recommendsuggest an action or series of actions based on alternative possibilities that I’ve evaluated Persuade convince or ‘‘sell’’ readers, or change their behavior or attitudes based on what I feel to be valid opinion Record document for the record how something was researched, carried out, tested, altered, or repaired? FOCUS ON YOUR READERS Non- specialized Engineers in other fields? staff? Lawyers? Technicians? CEO? Managers? Marketing? Customers? Others? Production? Knowledge Writer Ability Reader /audience Interest Are my readers … • engineers in my field of expertise who are seeking technical information and will they be offended or bored by elementary details? • engineers from a different field who will need some general technical background first? • managers or supervisors who may be less knowledgeable in my field but who need to make exec