Words Takeways

Knowing, Audience, Affect, Writing

On the one hand, writing is not just about writing whatever we want; if that were the case, our writing would be for whoever wants to read. In this case,  offset of specific goals, no expectations, no relationship, no interests.

On the other hand, a blank canvas can combine sculptural, painting, drawing, and textiles techniques with abstract, hyperrealistic art in the same blank canvas for all people in the world, including gender, people's cultural background, education, life experiences, and interests. At the same time, do you think it's possible for an artist to use these techniques on a single canvas to reach everyone worldwide? Or a musician to create the Rock, Jazz, Classical, Gospel, Hip Hop, and Rap hymns in one partition to fit all audience genders at the same time? Probably not, this will be a fuss, not music.

Furthermore, Writing is not just, write what ever we want on a blank paper; we must have a writing context at first with these questions :

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• What is the public or audience demographic I want to reach?
• What is their psychographic?
• What tone should I use for each of them?
• What topic should I use to get their attention? (Sport, Education, religious, or entertainment), Why can these topics grab their attention?
• What is my writing purpose?
• What do my audience need? What do they want? What do they value?
• a What are they least likely to care about?
• What do I have to say (or what am I doing in your research) that might surprise your audience?
• What do I want your audience to think, learn, or assume about me? What impression do I want your writing or my research to convey?

To sum up, thinking deeply about knowing your audience would save time and improve our writing. Actually, if you think about writing a presentation for a stakeholders meeting, imagine how your writing will be. You should use professional vocabulary in your job field to clarify your understanding. Your stakeholders' background, education, and job experience would affect your writing because you know them as well.

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