ENG 285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dietitian, Pediatrics, Laity

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 285
• Professor: Jesse Miller

Document Summary

4 categories: layperson, administrator, practitioner, researchers, how they"re categorized: knowledge about the topic. Difference between practitioner and researcher: practitioner: information practice, researcher: producing knowledge and affects experiment. Writing strategies: obese people, families, patients, people w. personal interest, kids, fda, lawyers, manager. Insurance agents: dietician, pediatrician, nurse, cardiologist, lab tech, professor of medicine, graduate student, brochures, websites, posters/charts, books, video/commercials, contract, report, statistical analysis, memo/letter, lab reports, email/letter, case study, manual, journals/articles, books, research papers, presentations, posters. Informal: describe terms, contractions, graphs visualize, culturally inclusive, bullet points= quick info, persuasive= graphs informal, quick access: bold, bullet points, formal, professional as equal, clinically backed, scientific structure, citations, statistics, data. Purpose: to inform, update, to persuade, to instruct, how to. Simple strategies: chronology, importance, spatiality, specificity, tools when figuring out how to shorten document. Visual design: font, legible, appropriate, colors, organization, text vs. image, logo.