Tips On How To Analyze Your Reader by Alex Bean

This is a crucial step in writing. Through high school and our younger years we may not use this like we are supposed to, but as we make into our college years and the real world we must do it properly.

So you must be able to write towards your audience and analyze how they will perceive your writing before they read it. This way you are more likely to get things across to your readers.

If your are writing to your boss you already know your reader, but if you are writing to someone else who you have never met there are a few things you should take into account to help you.
Company they work for
Position in the company
Responsibilities regarding the subject

Once you have looked at all of these factors you can sit down and put yourself in that person’s shoes reading what you wrote them. This could mean adding more information or removing unnecessary information. Just by doing this simple step you can fix your writing greatly, and hopefully in this process it will benefit your overall goal since the audience will feel more comfortable and informed from what you have written.




References
Walter Oliu, Charles Brusaw, Gerald Alred. Writing That Works. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007