Tailoring your writing style for a specific audience is very important in professional writing. For example, if you go on a business trip and you want to write an e-mail about your daily activities and experiences, you would write one way if the e-mail was addressed to your boss, but most likely you would write a lot more casually if it was being sent to your friend. I can recall one experience last year where I had to adjust my writing style. After eating at a fast food restaurant, I became ill and found out I had food poisoning. I decided to write a complaint letter to the restaurant’s headquarters and explain to them how dissatisfied I was. My original letter explained to them what happened, but was very heated and angry. After reading my letter over, I rethought my original approach at writing. Considering that my audience was going to be an office worker in a professional setting, being crude and condescending was not the best way to get my message across. I rewrote the letter so it carried the same message, but was more professional. Say I was writing the same letter to by brother; I could afford to be a lot more casual and express my true feelings like I did in my original letter. Changing your writing style to your audience is a skill necessary to have no matter what kind of writing you will be doing.