For my interview I decided to interview to dad, David Kipp. He's a Vice President of Technology Services at Burns Engineering, so he was perfect to interview as a professional in the field of engineering. He talked about how he writes about 25-30% of his day and that most of his writing is report writing and client communication as a close second. He also discussed how audience effects his writing everyday. Who the writing is intended for and the level of comprehension of the reader affect what how he writes. Most writing, he admitted, he comes into contact with is pretty poor because engineers tend to be more analytical people who aren't very gifted at writing. They make many grammatical mistakes and the writing tends not to flow very well. However, engineers who are able to flow well are very effective at attracting clients. Most writing done in engineering is non-academic but when writing for academic sources it's important to use very persist language because you audie...
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