Product Specifications as a Bridge for Understanding Audience and User Needs: Developing Writing Skills for Communicating Engineering Subject Matter

Engineering students, while writing about engineering subject matter, need to produce, expository, analytical, and argumentative writing. Using recommendation reports as a tool, with an emphasis on product specifications, can enable students to define audience and their needs and provide the learning space for engineering technology majors to write recommendation reports that require expository, analytical, and argumentative writing