Writing For A Specific Audience
18 Sep 2014 admin
Targeting your audience is of great importance to understanding what should go into your writing. It filters out the unnecessary, giving you enough focus to put more weight on what really matters. Here are some guided questions that you may want to look into:
Who am I writing to?
What will he or she find interesting about my subject?
What does he or she already know about my subject?
How can I explain my subject effectively to him or her?
In the IELTS writing section, the examiner will read your writing. Who is this examiner? The examiner, in all possibilities, is an experienced teacher, a native speaker of the English Language and a strict grammarian. It is safe to say then that the examiner is very well-trained to read your writing and to grade you fairly. However, the instructions for the writing tasks sometimes ask you to write to a specific person. The examiner will read your writing as if he or she were that person. Here are some of the types: a university lecturer, an educated reader, your teacher, an airline employee, a librarian, a supermarket manager, a landlord or landlady and a bank manager.
So imagine a reader and write to that person. Assume what they already know about your subject and what they would like to know. Then tell them in a very interesting way.