Consider how the audience shapes our technical documents. We have both primary and secondary audiences, and those audiences influence our genre and design choices as well as our sentence-structure and vocabulary. Effective technical writing always considering the audiences' background, interest, needs, and purposes. Looking more carefully at the articles posted on the previous page related to bipolar disorder in children and teens (example 1 for a General Audience and example 2 for a Specialized Audience), what differences do you see between the two articles? Vocabulary? Sentence-length? Style? Tone? Content? Consider the following questions regarding audience and purpose: How are these articles designed to present information to a specific audience? Are these articles designed primarily for one audience or one purpose? How are secondary audiences and purposes addressed? Which resource would be more helpful for those secondary audiences? How would you describe the "style" and "tone" of the articles? How are these appropriate to their intended audiences and purposes? What specific words, phrases, or sentences from the document illustrate your points? Why were these choices essential or relevant? How do these stylistic choices, for instance, reflect the needs or . 1 interests of the specific audiences?
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