Response to Amela Colakovic's Chap. 8 & 19 Post

Amela brings up a couple of good thoughts on the chapter readings. She points out the fact that it is difficult to present one's own style in technical writing. Technical writing seems to strip everything down to get to the bare bones of the writing by cutting out all the fluff, avoiding fancy words, and really focusing on the readers. When it comes to establishing style in various forms of writing, writers must first be able to adapt to the conventions of the writing form itself, then focus on the appropriate style techniques.

Amela raises the question of how one can be creative and still please the client in a given project. She goes on to say that creativity seems like something that would have to be sacrificed in order to please the client. This is a good point because many times the client will request that things be done a certain way, and this may not be the direction that the project leader would have gone. Nevertheless, the client's satisfaction with the end product should be the ultimate goal of the project leader. On the other hand, however, I feel that in many cases clients will seek creativity in the people they choose to head their projects. I think that it is just a matter of trying to find a balance between creativity and what the client wants.