Portfolio preparation: Analyse your readers

Now consider your own documents. Refer again to the three documents you selected earlier. Think about the primary reader of each document, and answer the questions. (In this case, you are using the questions to analyse documents after you have written them. The questions will be more useful as you integrate them into your planning process.)

What did the reader know about the situation before you wrote?
What else did the reader need to know?
What barriers could have prevented communication of your main message?
What, if anything, did you do to overcome these barriers? What could you have done?

You can complete this analysis by opening this Reader Analysis Form. Be sure to save the document in a folder for later reference.