3. Targetting Purpose Take into account your audience and purpose of writing The writer must decide what the purpose for writing is going to be This technique will help the writer get started 3. 1 Purpose e. g the purpose of a particular scientific paper may be to introduce a novel chemical for detecting uranium This will call for the use of argumentation methods in the writing Any good argument is only as good as the evidence presented to support the position of the writer. In scientific papers, the evidences and facts to support the argument normally comes from actual experimentation 3.2 Audience The writer must decide on the person or group of people that would, or should, be persuaded Once the author determine the audience, his or her focus for persuasion changes2 3. Targetting & Purpose Take into account your audience and purpose of writing! The writer must decide what the purpose for writing is going to be. This technique will help the writer get started 3.1 Purpose e.g. the purpose of a particular scientific paper may be to introduce a novel chemical for detecting uranium This will call for the use of argumentation methods in the writing. Any good argument is only as good as the evidence presented to support the position of the writer. In scientific papers, the evidences and facts to support the argument normally comes from actual experimentation 3.2 Audience The writer must decide on the person or group of people that would, or should , be persuaded. Once the author determine the audience, his or her focus for persuasion changes