- I'm writing for a group of new students in my major (environmental studies). They care about the things involved in our major, but they don't know much yet.
- They are really just looking for information: they want to know how arguments are constructed in our field.
- If I do a good job in this paper, they will be grateful because I helped them learn how to do a rhetorical analysis of arguments in our field.
- I am trying to relate to them as an older and more experienced student to some newbies.
- I will need to use professional but not cryptic language to relate to them in this way.
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| Webb, Michaela. "audience" 2014 |
Reflection: I read Stef and Lia's posts. They were much more thorough than me, but I feel that I was detailed as I need to be to have a full understanding of my audience. I have very limited time the next three weeks so I'm going allocate the most time to the aspects of rhetorical analysis that I have a harder time with and to actually writing my draft.
I liked how you mentioned that your writing for students in the major, but who are not yet experts on the major. I wonder if that will change the way I write my paper, knowing that my audience is still very new to the game. I think you could have gone deeper on the last question about relating to the audience. Instead of just commenting on the language, mention some about the ideas behind the words.
ReplyDeleteGood idea with the language part. It should be personal and not cryptic - something I forgot to mention in my post. Your post is a little short, but still pretty solid. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite point is that you're writing for an audience that is heavily invested (like you said, they care) but not very knowledgeable. It really rings true that they are just looking for information, and maybe even simplified models of things they don't yet understand. In reality, we're not in all that different a place from them, and if I read something like you described, I'd love it!
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