NEIEBook3--Unit2TheRoadAheadIdentifyawriter'saudienceandpurposeIdentifyawriter’saudienceandpurposesothatyoucanbetterunderstandwhyawriterincludescertaininformationandpresentsitinacertainway
Goodwritersconsidertheiraudience(thepeopletheyarewritingto)andtheirpurpose(thereasonorthereasonsforwriting)
Awriter’saudienceisevidentbythelanguageorcontentthatthewriteruses
Writershavedifferentpurposes
Theymaywanttoinformtheirreaders(objective)orpersuadethemtochangetheirmindsortakecertainactions(subjective),orproduceacertainemotionalresponse(subjective)
ApplytheStrategy1
Accordingtoparagraph1of“Site-seeingontheInternet”,whois(are)thewriter’saudience
Makeapossiblelistofpossibleaudiences
Accordingtoparagraph1,whatisthewriter’spurpose
Doesthesentence“‘Site-seeingontheInternet’isaUSgovernment