Audience Genre What is an Audience The people

Audience & Genre

What is an “Audience? The people who will be reading your work, who carry with them a certain set of expectations Audiences can be range from general to specific

Types of Audience General Audiences made up of a diverse collection of readers, who will have less demanding expectations. Your task is to appeal and relate to a number of different types of people. Your themes, characters, settings, and plots should be universal. Specific Audiences made up a certain, specialized readers, who come to the table with more rigid expectations. your task is to know and fulfill the expectations of a certain type of person. Your themes, characters, settings, and plots need to follow certain rules These rules are dictated by what you know and assume about your potential readers.

Genre What is ‘Genre’? a literary term used to classify different types of writing; such as: novel, short story, poetry, non-fiction. to place something into a ‘genre’ is to place it into a category with works that are similar.

What Makes a Genre? ‘Genres’ are defined and described by their distinguishing features. What are some genres you can think of?

Audience Expectations Audiences can always expect certain things when they know the genre of a book of a film, or music. Novel: will always be fiction, will always be long-ish, and will contain an extended detailed story with a beginning, middle and end. A Romantic Comedy: will always have a couple at its center, a meet cute, an obstacle at in the third act, a happy ending with a kiss and will usually feature quirky best friends and a soundtrack filled with popular music. A Research Paper: will always have a focused topic, research from reliable sources, a professional style, and will always contain a work cited page.

Genre Conventions Why is it important to be aware of genre conventions? It is important to be aware of the style or ‘genre’ you are writing because your audience will have certain expectations and it’s your job to satisfy them or else your essay—or story—will disappoint them and your piece will have failed.