Technical & Professional Communications Discussion Post (about 200 words) It is relatively easy to master the basics of technical writing. If you keep the triangle of audience, purpose, and information clearly in mind, you can be a very solid writer with a little practice. Mastering the art of technical communication however, requires creativity, imagination, the ability to inhabit a scene and give your audience a clearer picture of what they are seeing—to separate the reality from the appearance. David Epstein is highly-regarded writer who specializes in sports journalism, and his most recent book, The Sports Gene, presents a narrative that challenges some of our cultural conceptions about athletes.
For this posting, take a look at Epstein's essay, "Why Pujolis Can't (And A-Rod Wouldn't) Touch This Pitch," which is an excerpt from The Sports Gene. It appeared in Sports Illustrated in the summer of 2013. In your response, reflect on the number of discrete fields that Epstein has to deal with to craft this single essay: optics, physics, physiology, psychology, and baseball, just to name a few. In what ways does technical writing require us to be a jack-of-all-trades, but master of none.
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