Audience and Genre

Audience and Genre 

Prior to beginning to write it is very important for an author to think about his or her audience for the genre he or she is writing in. This will help the writer craft a better work that speaks specifically to the readers. Below is my analyzation of audience in the genre I will be writing in. 

Nhenze, "MobileHCI 2008 Audience" 9/3/08 via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution. 

• Audience 1: Future Parents 
• Future parents, specifically those that are currently in their 20s or 30s, will be interested in my writing because genetic engineering could potentially affect them when they decide to have children. If genetic engineering is possible by the time that they have children it could make a vast difference in how healthy the child or children they conceive is or are. For that reason, they will care greatly about the type of research in by work of writing. 
• Potential place of publication: Online newspaper column
• Quite a few people read online newspaper columns and by publishing my research there the majority of my audience would most likely see it. Due to the fact that the audience could be in their 20s or 30s they most likely are pretty up to date on the worldly news and by posting my research in an online newspaper they would be kept up to date on the logistics of genetic engineering.
• Linked example: The Huffington Post
• Linked example: The New York Times 
• Potential Place of Publication: Social Media Site 
• In today's world, social media is picking up more and more steam. One way to help future parents get a look at my research on genetic engineering is to post an interactive video or article on a social media site. If it were posted here then it would likely be seen by a number of different potential readers. 
• Linked example: Facebook
• Linked example: Pinterest 
• Audience 2: Researchers & Scientists in the field of genetic engineering 
• I think that when my research is posted it would make sense that other scientists in the field of genetic engineering would want to know my findings. It would make sense that they would be interested in seeing what other researchers had found on the topic.
• Potential Place of Publication: Scholarly Journal
• Due to the fact that the audience will be comprised of these researchers and scientists I think it would be logical that they will mostly be focused on reading different scholarly journals in which other scientific findings are published. 
• Linked Example: JSTOR
• Linked Example: Oxford Journals
• Potential Place of Publication: Major University Website
• Research is not only published in scholarly or academic journals but can also be found at institutions that have a prominent standing in the subject. A potential place of publication of research for genetic engineering could be on a university's website that has pioneered quite a bit of discovery and research on the topic. This would allow researchers that are directly focusing on genetic engineering at the university to easily access the information and use it to see what other researchers have found about the subject. 
• Linked Example: Princeton Department of Molecular Biology
• Linked Example: University of California Los Angeles Bioengineering