Writers and their Audience

In my experience of writing and reading papers, I have come to the conclusion that the audience you write to is very important in many different ways.  When it comes down to who you will be writing to, the author needs to think as to how he is going to write the paper because people have varying knowledge about different subjects and writers need to take that into consideration as a means of attracting the readers attention, furthering the readers knowledge, or helping the reader with research.  When writing about science and technology, there should be many publications but ones that address different knowledge levels about the subject.  I think writers should write about whatever they want to.  If they like to be more personal in their writing and like the reader to understand the subject more for a first time then they should do that.  Scientists should record their findings even though they are not the best in conveying the findings so personally.  Their findings regardless of the degree of comprehensiveness are important because it furthers science and the future.  


When someone writes about science and technology, that writer needs to be aware of his material and to whom he is addressing.  The material may be very general or specific which makes comprehension of the material a key point when writing to an audience.  In my opinion, every writer should have his/her own target crowd to write to so they know how informative their piece can be.  For example, scientists usually write about theses, and in those writings, there are usually many difficult concepts and words that regular people are not familiar with.  Therefore it is logical for scientists to direct their writings to other scientists, who can expand on their theses, or to researches who are writing important documents that are for educational purposes.  But where does that leave the regular people who do not have much knowledge in the field?  In my opinion, when it comes to this matter of writing to people with little to no background knowledge then writers with good personal skills that write about the basics of that topic should be used.  Because they attract the reader into the subject and not confuse them.  If readers like the topic then they can progress to the rigors or reading scientists research and findings.  This just provides a good segway to the harder material.  These are my opinions on audience and writings.