http://www.aston.ac.uk/lis/studyskills/academic.htm

: "MAKING ACADEMIC WRITING MORE READABLE
(Guidelines on study methods - 5)
When you write reports or essays, and even examination answers, do you ever think about the person who is going to read them? Except for a personal diary, the purpose of everything we write is to put a message across to a reader. The reader should be uppermost in our minds, whenever, whatever, we write.
For example, when you write a university assignment your reader (ie your tutor) knows more about the subject than you. So you are writing not to provide him with new knowledge, but to show him you have researched and understood the issues. The way in which you structure and write the assignment should reflect this purpose. If you are in doubt about whether to include or exclude information, your question should be -
'DOES THE READER NEED THIS?' (nt find th' page yer lookin' fer. -- Southern American

It's not there, eh? -- Canadian

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