The right to write

Some people, like David Phillip Miller, author of The Sobel Effect, believe that only experts should write about topics in their respective fields. However, I believe that anyone who has enough knowledge and passion about a subject and wants to write an article about it should be allowed to. A person does not have to be in a particular major to be knowledgeable about the material learned in it. For example, although a good friend of mine, Charles, did not go to college, he is like a walking, talking encyclopedia, able to speak for hours on almost any topic thanks to his constant thirst for knowledge and reading. I believe that anyone can become an "unofficial" expert on a subject if they are interested enough.

On a related note, should authors--these experts--alter their language depending on what kind of audience they are aiming for or should they keep the same type of language throughout their work?Although I agree that sticking with the same way of explaining gives the author a consistency that is nice to find in a writer, some material is just nearly impossible to read when targeted to a different kind of audience than myself. Imagine if a science elementary school teacher tried to explain photosynthesis to a student of ten years old on the basis of which he or she was taught. There would be terms even someone of my age would never have heard of: pyruvate oxidation, glycolysis, etc! Enough to make your head whirl for days and days on end! This is why I believe that material should be written in a language the intended audience understands; reading the material would be pointless if no sense could be made from it.