The University of Southwestern Louisiana offers an English major in technical writing. Many assignments and topics are covered in the junior technical writing course, but one of the most effective projects combines the students' and the professor's expertise and focuses on writing for a specific audience. The technical writer's job is to know how to communicate with and obtain information from various technicians, and at the same time be familiar with a variety of audiences so that he will be able to translate technicians' information into information comprehensible by the audience. To develop an awareness of their audience, students go through a two-stage process during several weeks of the course: a rhetorical analysis of their own writing, with a report; and a translation of a technical article. This two-stage project usually takes students from four to five weeks to complete. Upon completion, students have gained a sense of audience, enabling them to communicate an idea in any style. It is a sense of audience that makes technical writers the "informational liaisons" for all fields. (DF)