Writing Effectively at The World Health Organization

Practice: Identify primary and secondary readers

Identifying the primary reader and significant secondary readers for your documents allows you to focus on their needs and anticipate barriers. This is a key step in planning an effective document.

Earlier, you identified the purpose for several documents. Look at those documents again. This time, identify the primary reader for each document, and any secondary readers who are particularly significant.

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