Weekly reflection: chapter 1

I found the 1st chapter to be very informative and enlightening. In this first chapter, it mentioned how e-mails are becoming much more prevalent throughout the business world. Twenty years ago, memos were used widely and often, but today it seems as if more and more people are making the switch to the more convenient and less time consuming forms of communication. Those reasons alone have made the modern day e-mail a phenomenon. Technical writing can comprise of many different forms of writing. Learning about all of these different styles of writing was the most challenging aspect for me. Technical writing is usually concise and to the point. Knowing this, you almost have to automatically expell the idea of linking technical writing with writing an essay or novel. Those two forms of writing are lengthy and generally take a great of deal of description to get their points across to the audience. This is not the case with technical writing, and as the year goes on,  I hope to become more and more familarized with the general concept of "technical writing".