Read the following content and then write a statement letter
(that can be two pages long) to
the concerned committee of bureaucrats, politicians, educationists
etc. and explain the
working of your new plant. Write by keeping the TBW principles in
mind so that the
committee approves the statement in its first reading.
Read The Following Content And Then Write A Statement Letter That Can Be Two Pages Long To The Concerned Committee Of 1 (303.62 KiB) Viewed 106 times
Scenario With your new engineering degree, you went to work for Southwest Coal Power (SCP), a company that builds coal-burning power plants. In the six months you've been with SCP, you've learned how new technologies are making the burning of coal cleaner and safer for the environment. SCP has contracted to build a new power plant in Roll, Arizona. Before SCP can build the plant, however, it must file an Environmental Impact Statement that details any environmental problems the plant may cause and ways that such problems would be mitigated. You have been assigned to the team writing the statement. The proposed plant will use a boiler called a "fluidized-bed boiler," and the head of the team has assigned you the task of explaining the boiler. In your first attempt, you wrote a highly technical textbook description of the fluidized bed boiler, and the head of the team didn't like it at all. "Think of your readers," he said. "They're not engineers. They're bureaucrats and politicians and concerned citizens. They won't understand most of this, and when people don't understand something, they get suspicious and hostile. Give me something a nonengineer would understand." So now you are putting on paper some thoughts about your readers. They won't understand engineering terminology. They need some sort of analogy, maybe. You've seen the fluidized bed boiler compared to a giant pressure cooker. That might work. And you have some good drawings that show the boiler in action, pretty easy to visualize, really. What's the reader's point of view? They probably think coal is a dirty fuel and that the new power plant will endanger the environment. You can show them how this new kind of boiler "fluidizes" more than 90 percent of the sulfur and nitrogen pollutants out of coal. You begin to realize that thinking about your readers can be a good way to discover the content you need and even to organize it.
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