Portfolio Assignment

Name: Terry J Freeman

Professor: Paul Boyer

Course: ENC-101

Date: 20160214

Polishing Ideas

When adapting a specialized type or technique of writing for the general audience, I would like to put my process into five stages or steps. Firstly, I must find out who will be my intended audience. Secondly, I would document all the vocabularies that I will utilize. Thirdly, I will find materials where I put down my rough draft. Additionally, in the fourth step, I will have the paper reviewed by the person who is related to the intended audience. In my final step, I will develop a write for my final presentation.

As I have given the summary of the steps I will use, in the first step, the task will be determining the audience I will be writing for. In this step will help me know how much process need to be converted. In addition, in this step will help me know the order of writing the information (Gong & Dragga, 1995). Moreover, in this process, I need to ask myself whether the reader will be in a position to comprehend the information and its order. Also, in this step, I will take notes which will assist me when I will be writing my final paper to be used in presentation.

Secondly, I will document the vocabulary that I will use to ensure that there is common language

that will help each and every reader understand me. In addition, I will go through the process and

identify the abbreviations and terms that I will use. Moreover, I will put down the key words that

I will need to use, and the words that I will be required to change out and also utilize

input i.e. words that I will be given by other workers that will help to make the vocabularies that I will be using easy to understand.

Thirdly, I will commence to write my rough draft. This step will be made easier to go through since I will use notes that I have already compiled in the step one and two of the whole process. The sentence that I need to use will be short and straight to the point (Gong & Dragga, 1995). More so, the paragraphs that I will use will be having minimum of 5 to 7 sentences. In this stage, I will utilize the acronym, “K.I.S.S” which will remind me of how to “Keep it Stupid Simple”.

Fourthly, I will be involved in completing writing the rough draft and handing it over to my colleagues so that it can reviewed (Gong & Dragga, 1995). In this step, will help me to assess the accuracy of my rough draft which will be helpful when writing the final copy.

In the fifth step, I will be involved in writing the final copy for the presentation. In this stage it is supposed to be the easiest section when writing my final copy. It is simplest step since when writing final copy, I will be using the necessary changes requested. Then after making those changes the paper will be ready to be presented to the intended audience.

The process of adapting a specialized or technical subject is not that difficult. That is, five-stepped process seems to make this process a little bit easier for me when writing and presenting the final copy. In addition, utilizing these five stepped process will not only help but also the reader because of its simplicity.

References

Gong, Gwendolyn and Dragga, Sam. A Writer’s Repertoire. (New York: Longman, 1995)