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- Select the most specific audience and situation:
Readers of various age groups,
occupations, educational achievement, and economic levels interested in
learning more about uses of plastics in high-stress, heavy-load bearing
parts in automobiles.
Investment people needing to
understand uses of plastics in automobiles to assess risks and
opportunities in companies manufacturing these plastics.
Agents of an investment firm
seeking background of automotive plastics in order to recommend to client
investors stock purchases in a local plastics-manufacturing firm.
- Select the most specific audience and situation:
Military personnel who need
basic information on the disassembly, cleaning, and reassembly of the U.S.
Army P1265-A rifle according to strict military regulations.
New Army recruits in basic
training who need a basic manual on the disassembly, cleaning, and
reassembly of the U.S. Army P1265-A rifle according to strict military
regulations.
Users of rifles who need basic
information on the use of their rifles under various circumstances and
conditions.
- Select the most specific audience and situation:
Decision-makers who need
information about on the history, technique, applications, and technical,
social, and ethical problems involved in cryogenics, suspended animation of
humans beings.
People who are looking for
general information concerning cryogenics--the suspended animation of human
being--specifically, the history, technique, applications as well as
technical, social, and ethical problems involved.
U.S. Senate subcommittee
members who must act on legislation involving cryogenics and need basic
background information on the history, technique, applications, and
technical, social, and ethical problems involved.
- Select the most specific audience and situation:
Management orders to write a
brief, simplified instructional guide for startup of WordPerfect 5.0 for
the company clerical staff, who have little computer background.
For general reference, a guide
to using WordPerfect 5.0, a popular word- processing system that provides
the user with many advanced features and a means toward full
desktop-publishing capability.
For company personnel, a guide
to using WordPerfect 5.0 a popular word- processing system that provides
the user with many advanced features and a means toward full
desktop-publishing capability.
- Select the most specific audience and situation:
A primary research report on
the results of an experiment to see whether commercial-grade avocados can
be grown in controlled greenhouse environments in the Southwest, where
weather is not conducive to these plants.
Results from a research project
reported in an article sent to a research journal read by other researchers
in the field: an experiment to grow commercial-grade avocados in
greenhouses in the Southwest.
Background information on the
avocado: its nutritional value, cultivational information, recipes, and
other interesting facts.
- Select the most specific audience and situation:
A feasibility study
commissioned by City Council and to be addressed to council members on
completion: a study of whether free bus transportation would increase
ridership, decrease traffic, and be feasible economically.
Addressed to citizens, a report
on free bus transportation: whether it would increase ridership, decrease
city traffic congestion, and be feasible economically.
A feasibility report addressed
to City Council members on the idea of free bus transportation: whether it
would increase ridership, decrease city traffic congestion, and be feasible
economically.
- Select the most specific audience and situation:
Engineers who need technical
background on kidney disease and the technology used to treat it so that
they can bid on part of a contract to construct a dialysis clinic.
Engineers at Kuykendahl Design,
Inc., who need technical background on kidney disease and the technology
used to treat it so that they can bid on part of a contract to construct a
dialysis clinic.
Interested readers who need
technical background on kidney disease and the technology used to treat it
so that they can better understand this important area of modern
medicine.
- Select the most specific audience and situation:
Background information, plus
guidelines, concerning best locations for integrated-circuit manufacturing
facilities.
Recommendations presented to
Booth Micro Design, Inc., concerning where the company should locate its
new manufacturing facility.
In response to a request for
proposals, a proposal addressed to top management at Booth Micro Design to
study and make recommendations concerning its plan to find a location for
its new facility.
- Select the most specific audience and situation:
Addressed to potentially
interested company officials, a detailed technical specification describing
the manufacturing aspects of a new product idea involving a clock radio
that can be programmed to play back reminders.
Written to promote the idea
with the new-product planning department, a design description of a new
clock-radio that enables the user to tape and program reminders that play
back at the specified times.
A detailed technical
specification describing the manufacturing aspects of a new product idea
involving a clock radio that enables users to tape reminders that play back
at specified times.
- Select the most specific audience and situation:
A survey report written for
professional nurses concerning the problems in care facilities for the
aged.
Problems of elderly-care
facilities: a report on the main problems found in homes for the aged in
the in the U.S. today.
A survey commissioned by the
American Nursing Association to assess the problems in care facilities
for the aged.