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Introduction

A Definition of Audience

Types of Audiences

Determining your Audience Type

Three Categories of Audience

Academic Audiences

Nonacademic Audiences

Audience Invoked versus Audience Addressed

Teachers as Audience

Developing Audience Awareness

Analyzing an Audience

Writing for an Audience

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Nonacademic Audience Example

Imagine that you are an administrator for the school district. In light of the Columbus controversy, you have been assigned to draft a set of guidelines for teaching about Columbus in the district's elementary and junior high schools. These guidelines will explain official policy to parents and teachers in teaching children about Columbus and the significance of his voyages. They will also draw on arguments made on both sides of the controversy, as well as on historical facts on which both sides agree.

Draft these guidelines. Suggested format: a prefatory section giving the rationale for the guidelines and a set of purposes governing the new policies, followed by the guidelines themselves with an explanation of each one (specifically citing sources). A conclusion is optional. (Behrens and Rosen, 314)

• Step One: Reasons for Reading
• Step Two: Background Knowledge
• Step Three: Bias
• Step Four: Other Possible Areas of Interest