Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Audience Awareness Short Essay

Once again, here is the prompt:

Write a short essay ( 5+ paragraphs) that explores the importance of analyzing or considering the audience for any written assignment. Use specific examples to support your points. Any kind (genre) of writing can be used as an example. But your first step is to come up with a thesis statement which makes clear your viewpoint on this topic.

Type this up using the MLA format, including double-spaced lines.  If it is two pages long, that's fine.  There is no length requirement other than 5 paragraphs. Examples are key!

For example, from my online class: There have been several other instances where I have given directions to my children to complete a task,  like I gave my eight year old a poster and I told him "Go hang this on the wall." I walked in the dining room and saw the poster hanging on the wall and I asked him "Why did you hang this on this wall?" He said "Mom, you didn't say which wall, you just said hang it on the wall so I picked a wall and hung it up." While I meant the wall in his room but my directions were not specific, so he completed the task based on the information he was given. It was hilarious.

Print and hand in before class tomorrow.

Homework:

1.  Be observing and taking notes for your observation paper.

2.  TWFTD: disconcerting

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