Now that you are a content expert in your topic area, you will translate your newfound expertise into a text written for non-specialized readers (i.e., not an expert in your topic), and its purpose is to educate a specific audience about some aspect of your topic. The first step in this process will draw directly on your research from the Annotated Bibliography and Literature Review, and you will write a magazine or newspaper article that translates one of your sources/studies for a general, news-consumer audience. You will then further utilize your research to determine a way to offer further education to either patients or practitioners. Depending on your topic and your audience’s needs, you will eithercreate a technical description that describes a relevant concept or process to your readers, or you will compose a technical instruction set that teaches your readers how to perform an important task. You will learn how to determine a relevant aspect of your topic to write about; identify and analyze an audience that needs to read and make use of this information; select and design and appropriate genre and document type; and write in a way that presents complex technical concepts in a clear, logical manner.
