AUDIENCE ANALYSIS

Audience Analysis

Audience Analysis

The audience of a technical report—or any piece of writing for that matter is the intended or potential reader or readers. For most technical writers, this is the most significant consideration in planning, writing, plus reviewing a document.

Thesis Statement

To analyze audience it's important to determine which category potential readers of document belong to.

Types of Audiences

One of the first things to do when we analyze and audience is to identify its type (or types—it's rarely just one type). The common division of audiences into categories is as follows:

Experts

Technicians

Executives

Non-specialists

Audience Analysis

It's important to determine which of the four ...