1. By : Lauren Ferschweiler and Cheyenne sharpelletti
Audience and
Usage
By : Lauren Ferschweiler and Cheyenne sharpelletti

2. Audience
The audience is who the author is writing to. The audience are the readers of the author's work, and often writers alter their own writing to please the audience.
Usage
Usage is the words a writer uses and how they use them. Writers often have trouble with their word choices, because the words used can affect the mood and feel of the writing.

3. 10 ways to improve usage and writing to an audience
Number 1: Write for yourself
Editors and writers are not all the same
They all want something unique and new
Don't try to please others in your own writing
Everyone likes different things, so don't try to please everybody.

4. 10 ways to improve usage and writing to an audience
Number 2: Be confident in your humor
Don’t worry if readers don’t get your humor
It can always be taken out, but only you can put it in
Whoever appreciates your humor are worth writing for and everyone else just wont get it.

5. 10 ways to improve usage and writing to an audience
Number 3: Remove any grammatical errors
In terms of craft, there's no reason for losing readers through sloppy workmanship
Technical and grammatical errors should be fixed or removed
Careless errors can loose an audience, so avoid any mistakes.

6. 10 ways to improve usage and writing to an audience
Number 4: Practice at improving writing
When writing, practice the order and flow of the writing
Work to master the tools of good writing, like chronological order and good word choice
With solid principles down there's less of a chance to loose an audience

7. 10 ways to improve usage and writing to an audience
Number 5: Follow formal writing rules while formal writing
Don't use first or second person ( I, he, she)
No contractions (don't, couldn't
No cliques

8. 10 ways to improve usage and writing to an audience
Number 6: Don’t use cheap words
Some words are good to use, but others are not.
Language is always changing
Try to add more detail by changing weak or not as strong words with more descriptive ones.

9. 10 ways to improve usage and writing to an audience
Number 7: Use words that are needed
Focusing on concise writing can help with keeping an audience and improving word choice
Writers sometimes have trouble ending ideas or sentences, the best way to improve is practice using less to get more out of the writing.

10. 10 ways to improve usage and writing to an audience
Number 8 : know the difference between synonyms
Different circumstances affect the meanings of words
Affect is a VERB and EFFECT is a noun
You can also find better words by finding synonyms of weaker words

11. 10 ways to improve usage and writing to an audience
Number 9 : make your writing EXCITING
Use descriptive and unique words, even in formal writing
Make a point concisely and easily

12. 10 ways to improve usage and writing to an audience
Number 10 : let your writing be natural
Don't use choppy, uninteresting sentences
Be yourself
Prove your points cleanly and neatly

13. Now you try!
On a separate sheet of paper write about an experience you've had, what you learned, and what happened. Make sure it is in a formal writing format. Use the 10 tips to improve your writing.
( half the page)
Then on the second half of the sheet, write without formal writing rules, be yourself and write how you would any it to a friend