Who Is Going To Read This? Writing for a Specific Audience
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Who Is Going To Read This? Writing for a Specific Audience
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Knowing the audience for your paper will allow you to craft a better argument. Your audience -- undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, scientific researchers, administrators, managers, investors, etc. -- will influence:
When writing, consider your audience to be slightly less knowledgeable than you so that you do not provide too much or too little information. |
Who is my audience?
- I am addressing my proposal or recommendation to ...?
Who are the people most affected by my topic?
- Students?
- Organic farmers?
- Campus administrators?
- Local residents?
- Local grocery retailers?
- Campus health administrators?
Do the people affected by my topic produce information I can reference?
- Articles in student newspapers?
- Information produced by the university's health center?
- Information produced about good nutrition by the U.S. government?
- Information produced by the organic food industry?
- Information produced by regional farmers markets?
- Information produced by the state? Or, local government?
Where do I locate relevant information?
- On a U.S. government web site?
- Through a library database?
- Through a general or targeted search via Google?
- Through an arranged interview with an expert in this area?