English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

I found chapter 15, “Starting Your Career,” to be very interesting. At this point, I haven’t had much experience with job-searches. My job-searching has consisted of random applications in high school and distributing resumes at job fairs in college. After reading this chapter it seems that things won’t always be this easy. While I have had experience writing a resume, I hadn’t put much thought into tailoring my resume to suit each potential employer.

In chapter three, the author offers many pieces of advice to consider about audiences in writing. The main point stated by the author is to know the different types of audiences that will be reading your work. While there is an audience that will (hopefully) definitely read your work, there are also additional audiences that may or may not read it. Technical pieces should be focused on the main or primary audience that the piece is intended for, but they should also be understandable for other groups that may read them. Another point the author made about audience is cultural differences.