audience and genre

Audience, meaning who you are writing to, or for, is connected to the genre that you are writing in by what message you are trying to convey. The note in the beginning  of the piece from the mom to the son was just that, a memo(genre) to her son(audience) that conveys a message to him. If you are writing a report to a coworker or boss then it would be different than a note from mom to son. A proposal or other piece aimed at a wider audience would need to have more information in it as to educate the public about the message you are trying to get through to them. Some audiences you can assume will understand the information without needed explanation and that is why it is important to use the correct genre and understand who the audience is or will be when writing the piece. Also thinking about medium of the piece as some teachers want reports printed out and turned in while in this class all writing and brainstorming, and homework for that matter is posted to a blog on the internet. When posting we as students need to think about who might be reading the piece, not only the instructor but other students who probably have no idea the place that you are writing about, so much more information is needed than if you were writing to someone who already had background knowledge about your place. Knowing the audience or not knowing the audience will help you understand what you have to include in your piece, or any writing that you do. Writing to complete strangers might change the genre or the writing than writing an informal letter to close friend.