1. Do your readers know what it is like to live in a refugee camp? 2. Publishing a paper in a small town, where readers know precisely what they want, is a big headache for Harold. 3. The book presupposes its readers will already know something about the subject. 4. But there are changes in what readers know automatically, even leaving aside questions of education, social background, gender, ethnicity or age. 5. The first is that of ensuring that your reader knows which words are the technical terms. 6. Your reader will then know that you are not presuming that she or he knows what the term means. 7. Your reader knows what is in a section because it has a title. 8. In a national newspaper with a wide circulation, the inference was that some readers would know the special facts which identified him. |