Audience, Purpose, and Tone

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Audience, Purpose, and Tone Write a 150- to 200-word paragraph to explain the importance of purpose, audience, tone, and content in academic writing. Use the three components of a good paragraph covered in Week 2. Underline your topic sentence. Boldface your concluding sentence in the paragraph. Use complete sentences, correct subject–verb agreement, and consistent verb tense in your paragraph. When writing academically it is imperative that you are consistently mindful of you purpose, audience, tone, and content. You need to always ensure that you make your purpose clear to you readers in your thesis statement. As you use your body to support your thesis; you need to be sure to provide intricate detail that illustrates your purpose. It is best to use details and examples that are not only relevant to the topic, but also understandable to your audience. Your reader will lose interest if you go beyond their level of understanding, and if you explain too much. When writing you have to find the middle way, and you achieve this by using enough detail to be clear but not saturate the point. More than that when you use too much detail your tone can sometimes seem condescending to your reader, and this will also make them lose interest in your writing. You need to be consistently mindful of how you are presenting your ideas, and be sure that you are leaving your biases and emotions out of the writing. When in doubt it is best to just stick to the facts, and explain them in detail when you are constructing an academic
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