Writing for the Audience

You turn in all related Lego papers, including the final version of your directions. You decide whether you turn in your parts in the bag or dumped in the bin.

A.  And how did the Lego build go for you?  Assumptions?

We discuss the nomenclature problem, and you thinkwrite about it.

Did you spend time considering what your audience might need?  How did that work for you?

B.  Now, read Bedford pages 609-612, "Lazy Eyes" by Michael Agger. See it online here. You will answer the questions below in your daybook:

1.  Which one of the blue links in the article would you click on if you were reading this online? (You must list at least one and tell why.)

2.  What is btw (in paragraph 5)?

3. To go with the heading "It's a Jungle Out There" Agger explains Nielsen's  hunting metaphor.
         What are readers ("humans") called?
          What are we looking for in an online article?
          What is information equivalent to?

4. List at least 3 ways Agger shows (illustrates/demonstrates) what he's writing about.

5. Finish this sentence in a way that sums up the point of this article. Copy it ALL down:

          In his article "Lazy Eyes," Michael Agger ....

C. When you finish this, look at Section 41 in The Everyday Writer about apostrophes (pages 341-343).

Then do Ex. 41.1 on page 105 in the Exercise book.  Number 1-10 in your daybook and just write down the italicized words with possession added.

Homework:

1.  Fill one page of your daybook with a freewrite on this topic:  think of examples from your past where you thought carefully about the audience you were writing for.  Or give examples where you WISH you had thought carefully about your audience for a piece of writing.  How might things have been different? Texting and FB count as well as other writing. If you have no personal examples, write about whether you think Agger's points about online writing (and online readers) are true.

2. TWFTD:  ludic