Writing for your audience

With any piece you're working on it's important to keep your audience in mind. Who exactly do you intend to read your work? Friends? A professor? Children? You must maintain a balance between staying true to what you wish to say and what your audience wants/ is expecting to read. For example, I recently was writing a review for a play that I had seen. This was a class assignment, and the professor to whom the review was to be given had directed the play in question. Now there were some major things wrong with the play that I noticed but I certainly was not going to be the one to say them- I value my grade. No matter what they say the messenger always gets shot, right? Still, I have an honest/ blunt streak in me that's very hard to ignore. So, using the prettiest, nicest phrases possible I praised the play for its brilliance and tossed in some subtle criticisms.  In conclusion, be careful of your word choice especially when there's the possibility of your writing back firing on you.