Communication – writers to readers

In order for writers to communicate with their readers, they use different language in a way that links to their specific audience. For example, a news journalist will use different language to what a beauty magazine journalist will use. Using different language can affect many different aspects, such as creating a relationship and influencing their readers. The writer must also adapt his/her style, tone and clarity to the reading audience to ensure they communicate well.
One way language is used to affect the audience, is the formality of it. The formality of language should match the formality of the situation and the relationship between the writer and reader. For example, when someone’s writing an email to a friend, it will be rather informal. Email tends to be written less formally, often with sentence fragments, poor punctuation, and with lots of abbreviations. A good example of formal pieces of writing would be gossip or music articles. Although the subject matter wouldn’t be too serious or too important, the writing still has to have a professional tone to it, to make sure every reader understands the writing and will want to carry on buying the magazine, so, the writer will make the article formal. Newspaper articles can be seen as formal or very formal, depending on the subject, but all in all, it’s the news and it has to be written in a highly professional and clear way. A letter or a CV/Covering Letter can be a good example of a very formal piece of writing. A letter is almost certainly going to be on a serious matter, or/and to an important person, therefore must be written in the most professional way but kept clear at the same time. With a CV/Covering Letter, you are trying to sell yourself, so will want to sound as professional as you can.
One type of writer, an author, has the potential to communicate with