Through the last several weeks I have been reading extract of books that weren’t specifically addressed to me as a reader. Most of them were covering the same theme which is science technology and culture, but from different points of view. For example Bill Bryson, tends to write about the human part of the scientists. He portrays a friendlier story, without much detail regarding the experiment. Everyone would be able to understand his work without knowing anything about the topic. He also writes narrative stories like “ I’m a stranger here myself”, which is basically about the author and his experience with the mail. On the other hand I have been able to read other works like “On the Electrodynamics of Stationary Events” by Peter J. Femmel. This was about electrons and chemistry, a much complicated reading to follow. Though I believe you could understand it if you read it word by word, it was definitely much difficult than Bryson’s excerpts.
For the second reading you should have a background or understand the basic concepts of electrodynamics to easily follow it. Through this comparison we can conclude that to whom you are addressing your work defines many aspects of it. Not just the concepts you include but also how you word it, how specific you are, how long it is, and even the title. Authors could write about science and technology either to other scientists or to common readers, it only depends how you word it, that is why when your are writing you should ALWAYS keep in mind who are you writing for?
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