1. Review the importance of audience awareness. Be able to identify the most important questions to understand your audience. Furthermore, you need to be able to explain why this is the first step of writing.
2. An important factor of audience awareness is TONE of your writing. Review the following link and take notes. Tone and Audience Awareness
3. Practice: I am your audience. You will be trying out your newly found awareness of audience assessment with this exercise. You will imagine you have been assigned/ you are deeply interested/ you are passionate about/ scared to think about... the following topics. Again, I am your audience. What do you have to do to write about such a topic? How do you get your audience to listen? Review through the questions concerning audience, your notes, and the above link on tone...
You WILL be turning this in to me in Google Classroom. Put it on a separate piece of paper-not in your notes. You will need to put a bullet point list of things you need to consider/not do/tone, etc... Then, I want a short reflective paragraph for each topic addressing what you would perceive concerns/benefits of writing on this topic.
Your topics:
a. Affirmative action in college
b. Prayer in schools
c. Purpose of homework
d. Marriage equality
Now remember... it doesn't matter how I personally feel about these issues (one way or the other) when it comes to what side/stance you may take when you write. Audience awareness is NOT about changing your viewpoints to how your audience feels. It is about you being able to write in a manner that allows your audience to HEAR your ideas. Now.. keep in mind.. this exercise in other times... with other instructors MAY dictate your topic/stance, etc... You will hopefully be able to assess and adjust!
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