Online Technical Writing:
Audience Planner

Use this planner to define the key characteristics of your audience. When you are through, you can e-mail this planning information to yourself (and to your instructor, if requested). Before you get started on this, read the sections in the textbook on audience.

What's your name?

• Describe your intended audience---who are these readers?
  

• Describe your intended audience in terms of the organization they work for and their position or title.
  

• Describe your intended audience in terms of their occupation, profession, or field.
  

• Describe your intended audience in terms of their needs for or interest in the information you plan to include in this writing project.
  

• Describe how your intended audience will use the information you include in this writing project.
  

• Describe the technical background of your intended audience--what do they know and not know about your topic? what are their technical limitations in relation to this writing project?