3.10: Introduction to Audience Awareness
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What you’ll learn to do: examine how to analyze and appeal to your audience in your writing
Who is the audience for your writing? Often, in school, students think of the teacher as their audience. And students who are good at pleasing the teacher sometimes do well at their writing because they can “read” this audience of one.
In college and in the real world writing you do beyond college, reading your audience is critical to effective writing. Authors who know their intended audience, and who keep in mind possible unintended audiences, compose essays and arguments that are more effective at provoking a response, whether that response is simply creating agreement with the author’s position or spurring the reader to take action.
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- Revision and adaptation. Provided by: University of Mississippi. License: CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike
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- Knowing your Audience. Provided by: Georgia State University Dept. of English. Project: APLU-PLC Adaptive Courseware for English Comp Project . License: CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike
- Image of a performer. Authored by: Vishnu R. Provided by: Pixabay. Located at: pixabay.com/photos/artist-audience-band-concert-crowd-3480274/. License: Other. License Terms: pixabay.com/service/terms/#license