Paint a Face on the Typical Reader

Table of Contents

Pitts Work Analysis
Starks Work Analysis
Supposed Exchange of Audiences
Works Cited

Internet is a marvelous invention that helps people be updated on whatever they want. However, the rules of advertisement and commerce should always be strictly adhered to. Thus, the Internet articles on various sites always have their target audience. Undoubtedly, you stick with the article you like the most. It has to be relevant to your interest and appeal to you via language and tone. Of course, every writer of the blog article is bound to the audiences interest and he/she always tries to appeal to the reader as much as possible to attract a huge number of readers to the information posted. (Comley, p. 52) So, I will try to paint a face of the audience by reading an article at the website of Outside Magazine and the article on hypothermia at the website of PCPhoto Magazine.

Pitts Work Analysis

So, the tones of the voice for both websites are prêt casual. Needless to say that the readers of both of the sites count on the young audience, though no younger than 25, I would say. The reason for such an age rate is an explicit explanation within the blog articles given to the readers on how to travel or ascend the mountain (the article called A Visual Tour of Everst). I suppose such information would not be given to people under 21. So, if the site contained an article on the process of digital photo enhancement, the writer would have to start with a first-person voice and then elaborate on personal experience and problems he/she faced during the experiment. In order to catch the readers attention, the author would have to use emotional appeal and describe the feelings of frustration and later success he/she had. This way the reader of Outside Magazine, namely Pitts article, would feel like he is directly addressed since the article is written in a friendly manner to encourage other people to start the digital photography experience.

Starks Work Analysis

Another site under consideration is PCPhoto Magazine. Stark the author of articles, does his way to the readers attention through less appealing ways. His text seems to be a little less involving of himself; hence, the third person voice prevails. His audience is mostly theThis means that he does not necessarily mean to follow his own experience; the main thing is to describe the process and give a guide rather than arousing a feeling of mutual co-operation between him and the reader. So, the article about the process of hypothermia would probably contain a minimum of self-experience, whereas the terms concerning the process will certainly fill up the text, such as conduction, convection, radiation, and evaporation. The reader would be captured by the scientific approach of the lived-through experience of the author. Besides, since the tone is clinical and dispassionate the reader would be totally convinced that the facts are true and objective.

Supposed Exchange of Audiences

In case the two authors exchanged audiences the articles would have totally different approaches. Of course, this way the authors would have to overcome themselves in a way. However, it does not mean they would not be able to cope with the task. Pitt, having an audience of experienced photographers would have to thoroughly examine the topic and provide an explicit explanation of whatever he would have to write about rather than a mere laying out of personal experience mixed with tips. In case Stark had an audience of Pitt he would probably make an effort to use the more passionate language since the readers are younger and need more participation rather than a simple description of the process and to-dos the reader has to follow.