After+Reading

**RAFT Papers** are simply a way to think about the four main things that all writers have to consider:

> Who are you as the writer? Are you Abraham Lincoln? A warrior? A homeless person? An auto mechanic? The endangered snail darter? > To whom are you writing? Is your audience the American people? A friend? Your teacher? Readers of a newspaper? A local bank? > What form will the writing take? Is it a letter? A classified ad? A speech? A poem? > What's the subject or the point of this piece? Is it to persuade a goddess to spare your life? To plead for a re-test? To call for stricter regulations on logging?
 * **R** **ole of the Writer**
 * **A** **udience**
 * **F** **ormat**
 * **T** **opic**