The questions below will help you consider your task, purpose, and audience before beginning to write.
TASK
- What are you going to write (for example, an essay, a story, a letter)?
- What are some of the requirements for that format?
- What topic are you going to write about?
- What do you know about the topic?
- What do you need to find out about the topic?
purpose
- Why are you writing?
- What do you want your writing to do (for example, inform, persuade, entertain)?
audience
- Who is going to read your writing?
- what do you think the audience already knows about the topic?
- What do you want to teach the audience about the topic?
- What can you do to make your writing appropriate and interesting for that audience?