Chapters 8, 19

Simplify your sentences. Use an active voice. Chose the best vocabulary for your communication. Think of your audience as you're writing your communication. This summarizes chapter 8. I love this chapter because it gives me some basic guidelines and tips for creating an active voice. Guideline 3 details some of the reasons to use the active voice over the passive voice, though it does go on to give a couple of examples where the passive voice is appropriate.

At the end of chapter 19, Figure 19.2 is a great tool for managing projects conducted for clients. I will be using this to help organize and work on creating an instruction manual for the tech team at my church campus. I'll also be drawing on the information presented in chapter 16 (which I re-read this week) about working with a team to create a communication. My intension is to create a manual that will benefit a new team member as well as offer trouble shooting advice to veteran tech team members. I will be including two other team members in drafting this. One from the audio side and one from the video side. It should be fun...