Audience and Purpose of Writing
Whenever someone writes, they have a purpose for writing and goals to help them meet their purpose. These goals relate to what the writer wants to say and how the writer will say it. As the writing progresses, the writer may read back over their work to check that it is meeting the purpose, making changes to the ideas and information as well as to word-level and sentence-level features such as spelling, grammar and the order of sentences. The more experienced and confident the writer becomes, the more automatic some parts of the process (such as letter formation, spelling and the use of grammar) become. Other aspects of the writing process continue to require conscious planning and skill even for the most expert writers. An expert writer begins the writing process by clarifying their purpose for writing, identifying the audience they want to engage and thinking about how they will meet the purpose and engage the aud...