Adding the Reader’s Main Question
Your next step in planning is to anticipate your reader’s main question. This step sets up your imagined conversation, or dialogue, with your readers. You have already prepared yourself for this dialogue by establishing your purpose and analyzing your reader (as in the previous two Reflections Files).
“The writer should always ask, ‘Am I telling the readers
something they don’t know? Am I giving them what they need?’ ”
―Country Program Coordinator