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Revision as of 14:16, 3 April 2008
Content
- Analyzing Your Readers
- Obstacle for Readers
- Ways to Understand Readers
- Types of Readers:Technical Levels
- Types of Readers:Decision-Making Levels
Introduction
If you are a university student then most of the writing you do is targeted to your professor. The professor usually already has a general or better understanding of the topic. The purpose of this section is to show you how to determine your audience, and how to write for that audience.
A Cardinal Rule to remember
Write for you reader, not for yourself.
This is very important for technical fields such as sciece and technology because many of you readers have little or no knowledge about your field. It is very important that you avoid making the assumption that the user already has an understanding of your topic.
There are two keys to preventing this:
- Examine the main obstacles that the user faces. - Adapt a strategy for overcoming these obstacles.
Remember your job is not to write so you can be understood,but to write so that no one in audience can possibly misunderstand.
