Gilmore - Chapter 2

Teaching students how to write for a variety of audiences is a concept that will throw budding writers off the path.  Once they manage to write a good piece for a particular audience, they are assigned another audience to write for.  One of the more difficult aspects is wiritng for an audience that isn't familiar with the content of the paper.  It's hard to find a balance between arguing your point while explaining back story.  At time, students spend too much time summarizing main points and not using them effectively.  

I was brainstorming ways in which to teach writing for different audiences.  I thought it would be a good idea to have students come up with an example of an audience and then determine appropriate types of essays that would effectively convey their message.  Again, I think here is a perfect time to give students examples of works that were written for several audiences which will give students practice in identifying the intended audience which would help them in their own writing.