Adapting to Your Audience

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Audiences come in all shapes and sizes. They may be a group of similar people or combinations of different groups of people. You'll need to determine who they are in order to analyze your audience. This guide divides audience into two categories: academic and nonacademic.

Note: Your audience can be a combination of the two.

• Determining your Audience Type
• Three Categories of Audience
• Academic Audiences
• Nonacademic Audiences
• Audience Invoked versus Audience Addressed
• Teachers as Audience