Lesson 2: Why do you write?

Today I am going to share what I had learned from the English Class this week.

Nothing will happen without any reasons, also, no one will write anything without any purposes. Thus, whenever we are writing, we should always identify the audience and the purpose of writing.

What is an audience and what is a purpose? An audience is a particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing; a purpose is the writer's main reason for writing.

There are 4 types of audiences, which are:

1. Yourself: Knowing exactly how much detail is required (Informal Writing)
2. Personal friend(s): Good idea of how much detail is required (Informal Writing/ Formal Writing)
3. Person(s) that you don't know personally: Reasonable ideas of how much details is required (Formal Writing/ Informal Writing)
4. Remote audience: Writing must be explicit (Formal Writing)

There are also primary and secondary audience, where primary audience is the reader(s) whom the document is primarily intended; secondary audience is the reader(s) who may read part or all of the document with a reason.

We can also identify our audience with demographic factors, for examples:

Age Group

Gender

Language

Income and Status

Race and Ethnicity

They are 4 main reasons for writing, which are:

Describe

Entertain

Explain

Persuade

This is the Rhetorical Triangle of writing

Hope this can help you in improving your writing. Thanks for reading and have a good day!