Considering Delivery and Style

Being audience centered and knowing the purpose of your writing is important to keep in mind when writing. To do this writers change their delivery and style. By focusing on how a writer delivers his writing and the style the writer uses the reader knows who the audience is and what the purpose of the writing is. I researched two different articles to show how authors use different style and delivery. One was an article from a Forensic Magazine and the other was a scholarly article written by a professor in forensic science named Jerry Chisum.

            The delivery and styles vary greatly in the magazine article and the scholarly article.  The delivery for this article is online on a Forensic Magazine. In the article there was videos, pictures, bullet points, and the article was filled with colors. But compared to the delivery of the scholarly article the delivery is from a chapter taken from a book called Crime Reconstruction by Jerry Chisum. The book is delivered in an educational and proper format. The styles are also different. The style of the magazine article is meant to be relatable. For example, the author talks about popular TV shows like CSI to compare to a crime scene investigator in reality. Also the style is relatable because the writer likes to refer to the reader, such as “As we will see”.  In the scholarly article the Mr. Chisum uses technical terminology, graphs, and references to show his style of writing.

            From reviewing the delivery and style of each article I was able to discover the purpose and audience. In the magazine article the audience would be a general public interested in how a crime scene investigator does their job. The purpose is looking for general information about crime scene investigators. But in the scholarly article the audience would be researches in crime scene investigations and college students who are studying criminology because the writer’s purpose is to inform and educate them. By keeping your audience and purpose in mind writers know what material to include and how to organize their writings.

Warrington, Dick. "Crime Scene Investigator as a Career." Crime Scene Investigator as a Career. Forensic Magazine, 8 Jan. 2008. Web.

Chisum, W. Jerry, and Brent E. Turvey. Crime Reconstruction. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic, 2007. Article.