Audience
Audience
The audience refers to the group of people, the responders, who will be reading the written text. When a composer constructs a written text he/she is writing for a particular audience. This will have an impact on how the written text is composed.
Imagine, for example, that you are leaving a note with another person. Do you think that the message you leave will be different if your intended audience is your best friend? Your mother? The manager of the place where you hope to get a job? If you can see what some of these differences might be then you already understand audience. Now it is a matter of recognizing where a written text is suitable for an audience.
Not every written text that you analyze will have you as the intended audience. It is important, therefore, that you can decide what audience the text has been designed to reach. In a written text where the subject matter is about a famous rapper, the audience may well be people whose interests include listening to rap music.
The next time you see a written text, try to decide who might be the audience for that written text. This will be quite obvious for specialized (topic specific) magazine articles such as you might find in wrestling or beauty magazines. It will require more thought to decide upon newspaper articles that are targeted at general topics. Even more thought will be required for many novels and poems.
Determining Intended Audience
