Writing series

2. Determine your audience and/or readership

Stages of writing assignments
Use this process to develop your audience and readership:

Define your target audience, and how you will address them

Some ways of thinking of audience

• You are selling a product:
  what style of writing will appeal to them?
• You are explaining a sport:
  how would your vocabulary change if your audience were children?
  visitors from another country? your parents?
• Are you documenting an event:
  how would you detail the facts of a crime you witnessed?

Seven stages of writing assignments:

Index | Develop your topic (1) | Identify your audience (2) |
Research (3) | Research with notecards | Summarizing research
Prewrite (4) | Draft/write (5) | Revise (6) | Proofread (7)