Audience vs. Genre
Audience and Genre have two different meanings, but are often both considered by the author when composing a piece of writing. Audience can be defined as the group you are writing to or the group of people that will be reading your writing. Genre on the other hand, can be defined differently based on context and serves as a way to categorize subtopics of a larger subject. For this specific situation, genre describes different forms of writing or writing analysis such as: blog posts, research papers, fictional novels, newspaper editorials, and so on.
The similarity between these two key terms is that certain genres apply to specific audiences. For example, you wouldn't submit a research paper for a job interview. You would submit a piece of writing that follows a resume format instead. Another example would be writing a research paper for Psychology class. You wouldn't submit a short-story because that genre wouldn't answer the question as effectively as the research genre would. This is where the similarities between genre and audience really appear and the importance of writing the correct genre for a given audience becomes very apparent.
You could still stand to revise your opening sentence, which is vague; you could cut the first clause and instead begin with "Audience and genre are both key writing terms that an author often considers when composing a piece of writing."
ReplyDeleteHowever, overall I see improvement in this post; you seem to have a better grasp of the key terms, and give relevant examples as evidence.
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