2-2 Written Response: Audience Understanding

Overview

In the Module Two Reading Response, you examined the writer’s choices in the text you have chosen for the project. Now you will turn your attention to your own writing and the analysis that you will do. This assignment will prepare you to identify the audience for each version of the paper you will write for your project, describe the needs of the audience, and describe the needs of the writing situation for your project. Remember that your own audiences for the project might not be the same as the author’s audiences that you previously identified.

Focus here on who you will be writing for and think about how this information might impact them. Your project will analyze the article that you selected. Think about who might need this analysis. Then think about a completely separate audience that also might need this analysis. Additionally, keep in mind that the writing situation for your project will also reflect the audiences that you identify. This submission should build on your previous work with audience and writing situation to explore how you can apply these to your own project.

Refer to the Course Map located in the Start Here module to learn how your work on this assignment connects to the project.

Directions

For this assignment, you will address prompts about the audience and writing situation of your own writing using the template linked in the What to Submit section.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Audience: Identify an audience for your project.
   1. Who needs the analysis of the text that you will communicate in your project?
   2. This will be the primary audience you will address in the first paper, as part of your final project.
2. Second Audience: Identify a second audience for your project.
   1. Who else needs that information?
   2. This will be the secondary audience you will address in the second paper, as part of your final project.
3. Writing Situation: Describe the writing situation for your project.
   1. What do you think the writing situation is for your project?
4. Why Each Audience Is Appropriate: Explain why each audience is appropriate for the content and writing situation.
   1. Why are the two audiences you identified appropriate for the content and writing situation of your project? How do both audiences connect to the core idea of the article, as you have identified it?