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Introduction

A Definition of Audience

Types of Audiences

Determining your Audience Type

Three Categories of Audience

Academic Audiences

Nonacademic Audiences

Audience Invoked versus Audience Addressed

Teachers as Audience

Developing Audience Awareness

Analyzing an Audience

Writing for an Audience

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Determining your Audience Type

Writers determine their audience types by considering:

• Who they are (age, sex, education, economic status, political/social/religious beliefs);
• What Level of Information they have about the subject (novice, general reader, specialist or expert);
• The Context in which they will be reading a piece of writing (in a newspaper, textbook, popular magazine, specialized journal, on the Internet, and so forth).