Chapter 1 Concept 1.1, 1.2

Whenever a person is writing a paper there are various items that person must consider before the pen ever hits the paper.  How are you going to write this paper?  Is it a casual paper or a professional one?  Who is going to be reading my paper?  What kind of language should you use on the paper?  All of these questions will lead a single topic to hundreds of different kinds of papers. I will focus on one of these questions for this post, audience.

The audience that you are writing the paper to is one of the most important things when starting your paper.  Say you are writing a paper to a group of scientists.  When writing this paper you would speak very plainly using any technical terms that you might need to explain your point.  You might even try to use slightly better language then you are used to, to try to impress them.  On the other hand if you were writing the same paper to a general audience you would probably reconsider that idea as your audience may not understand some of the more technical terms, you would try to find a simpler way to express your meaning to help your audience stay involved and stay tuned in while reading through your paper and be able to effectively respond to any of the points that you might have brought up.