The Audience Analysis
Due by the end of Session 2, as part of the First Draft
Review Chapter 2 in our textbook for more discussion of the parts of an audience analysis
The audience analysis should be minimum 200 words in length, and should appear as the first item in your first draft, before page 1 of the actual paper. Use copy & paste to add your audience analysis to your first draft file before posting.
1. Audience profile. Describe and define your target audience. Who do you want to reach with your summary/response? Can you define the audience by age, gender, educational level, ethnic background, or any other criteria? (approximately2-4 sentences)
2. Audience-subject relationship. Discuss what your audience probably already knows—if anything—about the topic. You are not just addressing the specific core reading here, which is probably new to most of your readers. You are addressing what your readers may know about, have experienced, or heard second-hand about the general theme of this reading. What attitudes or biases do you expect in your audience? (approximately 2-4 sentences.)
3. Audience-writer relationship. Discuss your relationship to this audience. Consider what you may have in common with your audience. Consider whether your audience will trust what you have to say or not. Are you “one of them,” or are they a group different from you who needs to know something you have to offer? (approximately 1-3 sentences.)
4. Writer’s role. Discuss the role/perspective you want to project to your readers. Do you want to come across as a fellow spectator, someone with personal experience of this topic, an expert on this particular reading, a friendly story-teller, or some other role? As long as you remain consistent, these and many other possibilities are acceptable. (approximately 1-3 sentences)
The First Draft
Due by the end of Session 2
First drafts consist of the following elements:
1. A left-hand block header that includes your name, instructor’s name, class/section, and date
2. A separate title for the paper, centered on the title line and in the same size, style, and font as the rest of the document—not underlined. Use an original title
that suggest your main point or approach (not “Summary/Response Paper”).
that suggest your main point or approach (not “Summary/Response Paper”).
3. MLA or APA formatting, as specified by your instructor, including in-text documentation and a separate Works Cited or References page at the end.
4. Minimum 635 words for draft stage. (850 words for the final draft.)
5. A minimum 200-word audience analysis. This analysis should be posted at the beginning of the draft paper, before page 1 of the actual paper. Use copy & paste to add your audience analysis to your first draft file before posting. The audience analysis will not be included in the word-count requirement for the draft itself. The audience analysis must be removed from the final draft that is due in Session 4.
Instructions for posting your first draft for peer review can be found in the Class Session 2 folder.
Peer Reviews
Due by the end of Session 3
You will be writing peer reviews of at least two classmates’ first drafts in Session 3. Full instructions for how to post peer reviews can be found in the Class Session 2 folder. Full instructions for how to respond to peers’ drafts can be found in the Class Session 3 folder.
Final Draft
Due by the end of Session 4
Final drafts must consist of the following elements:
1. Final drafts must clearly be related to the earlier, first drafts. A progression of thinking from one draft to the next must be evident. Major changes in organization, new examples or ideas, or deletion of elements from the first to the final draft are expected, but the final must still be clearly a development of that first draft.
2. No final draft will be accepted until a first draft has been submitted—even if the first draft is late and worth no points, it must precede the final draft.
3. The audience analysis must be removed from the final draft.
4. The final draft must be properly formatted in MLA or APA style (as specified by your instructor) and must document the core reading with both in-text citations in the body of the paper and a Works Cited or References list at the end. The Works Cited or References list is NOT included in the word count requirement. See Session 2 for a specific example of your Works Cited or References citation. Note that for Web citations in MLA style, you will need to UPDATE the access date at the end of the citation to the date on which YOU looked at the website.
5. The final draft is to be a minimum of 850 words in length.
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