IPHY 3700 Notes for Wednesday, September 10 Process Activity: Characterizing Your Audiences Identify your primary and secondary readers. Raise key “audience‐analysis” questions: ‐‐How are my readers likely to relate to me? ‐‐What do my readers know and need to know about my topic? ‐‐Why is my audience reading my paper? ‐‐What values, preconceptions, and biases might readers hold about my research issue? ‐‐What qualities of written communication do my readers value most? ‐‐How will my audiences actually go about reading my paper? Note the implications of your audience analysis—that is, take notes to remind yourself of what you'll need to do in your paper to meet the needs, expectations, and values of your readers. A Format for Taking Audience-Analysis Notes Characteristics of Primary Audiences Characteristics of Secondary Audiences Audience-addressing Strategies How are my readers likely to relate to me? What do my readers know and need to know about my topic? Why is my audience reading my paper? What values, preconceptions, and biases might readers hold about my research issue? What qualities of written communication do my readers value most? How will my audiences actually go about reading my paper?How to Analyze Your Audiences 1. Rely on what you already know about your intended readers through experiences that you’ve had interacting with them 2. Talk with people who know a lot about your intended readers 3. Talk directly with your intended readers—that is, just ask them about their needs, expectations, and values LSG values student writing that . . . ¾ Demonstrates advanced scientific knowledge ¾ Goes well beyond summarizing and paraphrasing scientific literature by synthesizing research ¾ Makes original and strong arguments ¾ Demonstrates "thinking out of the box" ¾ Digs deep holes ¾ Uses content, language, and tone that reflect consideration of readers ¾ Develops unified, coherent, and goal‐focused paragraphs ¾ Reflects clear, precise, well‐structured, and grammatically correct sentences ____________________________________________________________________________ Let’s Do Some Audience Analysis! 1. What do my readers know and need to know about my topic?2. What values, preconceptions, and biases might readers hold about my research issue? 3. What qualities of written communication do my readers value most? a. Suppose that one of the goals in your plan is to reintroduce the background info, methods, and results of our study. b. Suppose that one of your rhetorical goals is to discuss limitations to our study. How do you dig deep holes? c. Suppose that one of your rhetorical goals is to make an argument about the physiological mechanisms underlying our results. How do you dig deep holes and make a well-rounded argument? d. Suppose that one of your rhetorical goals is to . . .
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