Audience

I am in week three of my online English class and this weeks topic is about Audience. When writing a blog or even a paper for that matter, the writer must think about the audience that will be reading that paper or blog. Most blogs already know ahead of time who their audience is or the intended audience is supposed to be. But what happens when a different audience reads your blog? Will it help your blog or hurt it?

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What are some things to consider when writing. I know that when I am writing my school papers that my audience is the teacher and my other classmates. So I know what I write should be beneficial to them.

Also when writing a person must be careful and not use bias words. Bias words have a tendency to hurt some blogs/people by the way the article is written. Below is a list of biased and unbiased words. The list of words came from this site here:  http://www.writeexpress.com/bias.html(Links to an external site.)

Biased		Unbiased
businessman		businessperson
chairman		chair, chairperson, head
clergyman		member of the clergy, minister, pastor
Congressman		member of Congress, legislator, representative
fireman		firefighter
foreman		supervisor
mailman		letter carrier, mail carrier, postal worker
mankind		humankind, humans, people
manpower		Personnel, staff
policeman		police officer
salesman		salesperson
stewardess		flight attendant
waitress/waiter		server

The most important thing to remember is to avoid being racial bias. You never want to stereotype anyone for any reason. This includes blatantly derogatory statements, such as racial slurs because they are unacceptable in any writing.

Reference:

http://www.wisegeek.org/in-writing-what-is-an-audience.htm