Online Technical Writing:
Audience Planning Guide

Use this planner to define the key characteristics of your audience. When you are through, you can e-mail this planning information to yourself. (Your instructor automatically receives your planning notes.) Before you get started on this, read the sections in the textbook on audience.

• Describe your intended audience—who are these readers?
  
• Describe your intended audience in terms of the organization they work for and their position or title.
  
• Describe your intended audience in terms of their occupation, profession, or field.
  
• Describe your intended audience in terms of their needs for or interest in the information you plan to include in this writing project.
  
• Describe how your intended audience will use the information you include in this writing project.
  
• Describe the technical background of your intended audience--what do they know and not know about your topic? what are their technical limitations in relation to this writing project?
  

   

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