Free Writing Exercise #3, Week 4

The type of writing in my field is both very diverse, yet quite specific. I will go about explaining why. The reason I say very diverse is because “Engineering” is one of the most diverse fields out there. You can be outside in the field telling backhoes where to dig, or you can be in a lab with a lab coat testing silicon for new transistor technology. Of course Electrical engineering is a little more specific, but still has many different areas in which you can work in. When you Google search engineering, you will get 1,000s of results, and each one is a type of writing that an “Engineer” could write. You will get technical papers describing new technologies that they have just started using, to overviews of engineering departments that offer technical services to companies. The reason I say that the type of writing in my field is quite specific is because once you get down to the specific type of engineering, you are then looking at an area that specializes in something. For instance, once you get into the field of petroleum engineering, you will get very detailed work that is being done in the field of petroleum engineering.