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In this post I'll be analyzing the audience who are students new to my major.
- Who Am I Writing for? The audience I'm writing for are new students in the economics major . They are not well informed on writing rhetorical analysis for public speech and need guidance in that respective area.
- What position might they take on this issue? How do I respond? On the current issue of the text i'm writing about, the majority of the audience might agree with the author about the ineffectiveness of the sanctions against North Korea. However for the few that would disagree I would respond with why and would want them to provide evidence of their argument.
- What will they want to know? The audience would want to know the impact the factories would have on the North Korean economy, as well as on the Chinese economy , and also if it impacts any other countries, or international conglomerates.
- How might they react to my argument? They might react by agreeing with my argument and even adding more information to it or they might try to disapprove it with their own evidence and opinions about it. (even though no one asked for their opinion)
- How am I trying to relate to or connect with my audience? I am trying to relate to my audience by simplifying the process of rhetorical analysis and comparing it to something that they can easily digest and be able to not only comprehend but also so they can analyze different texts for themselves in an adequate fashion.
- Are there specific words ,ideas, or modes of presentation that will help me relate to them? Although traditionally formal words would be more professional , I think having a combination of a casual tone with formal wording would help them relate more and be able to comprehend it as well.
Reflection : I read Austin and Carrie Belle's post and it only confirmed that everyone is going with different concepts in their essay. There were differences between all of our posts, whether it was how we are addressing our audience or which part of our essay our imaginary audience was going to react too. Either way I learned that whatever I'm doing isn't wrong and that I also may be somewhere in the direction of the right track when it comes to writing this strange essay, that's half instruction manual and half rhetorical analysis.
We approached these questions differently, but I really like how you answered yours! I viewed my questions more so how the students would react to my piece as an analysis, versus how they'd react to the article that I chose. Thinking about it, it's probably inevitable that they'll have their own opinions and reservations about both aspects! This gave me a new perspective to analyze my own audience.
ReplyDeleteYour analysis is actually almost identical to my own. I had been a little worried about the casual but also formal mixture of tones I was planning on going for, but after seeing that you plan on doing the same I feel better about it. But on literally almost every question we analyzed it the same way, which makes me feel like I'm on track at least!
ReplyDeleteI found you analysis very similar to mine. You directly answer each question, and address the topic of the question thoroughly, but aren't redundant or overly verbose. Overall, I have a good understanding of your intended audience after reading this post, and feel that mine is thorough enough as well.
ReplyDeleteYou did a fantastic job looking at your audience, very thorough. I love your strategy to connect with your audience, relating to things that they probably are already aware of and building off of that. Your ideas about tone seem right on point, and thats an idea that I'm going to keep in the back of my mind as we move forward in this project.
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