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** TASK ONE **
** Read the first few paragraphs of the following two texts. For whom were they written? What aspects of each text helped you decide the audience? In what kind of publication would you expect to find these texts? Sentence numbers have been added here (and in subsequent texts) for ease of reference. ** ** (The text is in page 8 of the book) ** In the first text, the audience is non-professional people who are not familiar with reverse osmosis, so it provides background information along with clear definition of the process.But in the second text, the audience has familiarity with the subject and we can say the audience is an instructor. We can find the first text in journals, magazines, etc., But the second one in an academic course. The amount of technical vocabulary and the amount of background information helped us decide the audience.

** TASK TWO **
** In each of the texts in TASK ONE, can you identify sentences that define reverse osmosis? Consider how these definitions differ. Now write a short definition of a term in your field for two different audiences: one will be graduate students in a totally unrelated field, while the other consists of fellow students in your own graduate program. **  In text A, the sentences of 7-9 defines the RO, and in text B, the sentences of 1-3.in text A, it has defined the RO for people in an unrelated field, but in text B, it has defined the RO, for knowledgeable people in the related field. Definition if RO for students in unrelated fields: the process in which pure water is produced by forcing waste or saline water through a semipermeable membrane. Definition if RO for students in related fields: it is a membrane-technology filtration method that removes many types of large molecules and ions from solutions by applying pressure to the solution when it is on one side of a selective membrane.