Initial Writing Assessment

Ricky Sherfield

1. I am a second year Architecture major at Texas Tech. After I graduate from Texas Tech with my Bachelors Art Degree in Architecture I plan to continue to use all of the skills that I picked up along my journey throughout school. What I think will help me with my transition is to keep the habits that I have been using for so long. I feel that if I do this then it will be easier to use my acquired skills. My writing will differ with my audiences depending on what group it is. My writing with a client would be different than with a colleague.

2. The types of writing that I will most likely be doing in my future occupation are proposals, references, presentations, portfolios and reports. In architecture, there are a lot of different documents that an individual or group must do to either submit for a task or do after a task is completed. The most common writing would probably be proposals. An architect has to come up with a plan that meets the clients needs and wants, so a proposal is very critical.

Architecture is not just in America, it’s all over the world. It also is a field that will never die because people need buildings and such. Architects come across people of all kinds of different races and backgrounds. An architect may also have to travel across the world to complete a project.