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.

1. If you have thought about the topic, report type, or situation of your technical document project, in the box summarize below your ideas so far:
   
2. Describe your intended audience—who are these readers?
   
3. Describe your intended audience in terms of the organization they work for and their position or title.
   
4. Describe your intended audience in terms of their occupation, profession, or field.
   
5. Describe your intended audience in terms of their needs for or interest in the information you plan to include in this writing project.
   
6. Describe how your intended audience will use the information you include in this writing project (learn from it, make decisions using it, distribute it).
   
7. 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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