Analyze to determine audience and select effective writing strategies.

Each week you will have an opportunity to practice different aspects of the writing process in this writing notebook. It consists of a template you will fill out and submit in Canvas. In addition to introducing and practicing targeted components of the writing process, these notebooks are meant to help you to determine your own strengths and identify opportunities for growth.

This week, the writing notebook focuses on how to analyze your audience to communicate most effectively to them.

Before you begin this week’s writing notebook, read the Considering Your Audience (Links to an external site.) webpage in the Writing Center as well as the Audience Analysis Worksheet (Links to an external site.).

In the Week 3 Writing Notebook you will

• Analyze to determine audience and select effective writing strategies.

Follow the steps outlined below to complete this week’s writing notebook:

• Download the Week 3 Writing Notebook Template below, which has been provided for you in both a Word document and a PDF file.
  • Week 3 Writing Notebook Template download(PDF)
  • Week 3 Writing Notebook Template download(Word)
  • Please note that you can choose to print out the template and mark it up as long as you can scan it back into your computer for submission in Canvas by Day 7.
• Complete all steps of the Audience Analysis Worksheet in the Week 3 Writing Notebook.2

   

  Week 3 Writing Notebook

  Audience Analysis Activity

   

   

   

  Each week you will have an opportunity to practice different aspects of the writing process in a writing notebook. It consists of a template you will fill out and submit in Canvas. In addition to introducing and practicing targeted components of the writing process, these notebooks are meant to help you to determine your own strengths and to identify opportunities for growth.

  This week, the writing notebook focuses on how to set expectations and analyze your audience to communicate most effectively to them.

   

  STEP ONE: Considering Your Audience

  Explore the information on the Considering Audience webpage and consider how your writing might change depending on the audience.

   

   

  1. Which audience would be most difficult for you to write for? How would you describe the audience you are most likely to write for academically? Professionally?

   

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  STEP TWO: Changing Audiences

  Explore the information on the Audience Analysis downloadable worksheet and consider your Week 2 written assignment.

   

   

  1. Who was your audience?

   

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  2. How did you want your audience to react?

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  STEP THREE: Audience Analysis in Practice

  Let’s combine the work you have done so far to create a game plan for audience analysis.

   

  Activity 1: Consider the step-by-step process for audience analysis that is explained on the Audience Analysis worksheet.

   

  1. Describe a situation in written communication where you may be called upon to deliver information. This may be a situation you have encountered, or one you expect to encounter professionally.

   

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  2. Explain how you would communicate this information to different audiences.

   

  Note: You don’t have to write any communication in full, but please use detail to show how your communication would vary depending on the audience.

   

   

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  STEP FOUR: Review and Reflect

  Review your work in this Writing Notebook. What challenges did you face? Which aspects of audience analysis were new to you, or which aspects might you have already been familiar with? In no more than 150 words, please reflect on your work in this activity.

   

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