ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: National Cancer Institute, Formal Language
8 Dec 2016
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While writing often has many purposes, we usually focus on one. What do you want your audience to do, think, or feel? how will they use what you tell. Audiences may be defined as known, multiple, or unknown. Known audiences can include people with whom you"re familiar as well as people you don"t know personally but whose needs and expectations you do know. You yourself are a known, familiar audience, and you write to and for yourself often. Class notes, to-do lists, reminders, and journals are all written primarily for an audience of one: you. For that reason, they are often in shorthand, full of references and code that you alone understand. Other known, familiar audiences include anyone you actually know friends, relatives, teachers, classmates and whose needs and expectations you understand. You can also know what certain readers want and need, even if you"ve never met them personally, if you write for them within a specific shared context.
