Analyzing My Audience

Analyzing My Audience 

Before writing it is important for an author to determine who he or she is specifically writing for. Below is the analyzation of the audience I am writing for. 

Ercegović, Marko. "EXIT Audience 2012 (1)" 7/12/12 via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution

• Who am I writing for? 
• I am writing for new students coming into the engineering field as well as the professor who has instructed me to write for these new students. This being so this writing will differ from just an informational article regarding the topic. 
• What position might they take on this issue? 
• Being students that want to pursue engineering it would be expected that these students would be proponents of genetic engineering. It is likely that they would understand the scientific concepts behind genetic engineering and in turn understand more about the issue and then be more accepting to it. 
• What will they want to know?
• The audience will likely want to know all of the concrete facts about the subject as well as how this topic affects each of them. Additionally, the probably will want to hear about example cases for both sides of the argument so they can formulate an opinion based on all the facts and logistics. 
• How might they react to my argument? 
• Again because the audience is comprised of engineering students they will be expected to react in an accepting way. Coming into engineering they most likely will not have predispositions to dislike many or any types of engineering and because of this they are likely to take the argument and understand it and in turn accept the information given and favor it. 
• How am I trying to relate to or connect with my audience? 
• I will specifically try to connect with my audience through use of all three of the appeal types. I will try to connect with the audience in many different layers rather than just having a surface level claim that won't make anyone think deeper. Additionally, I will try to relate to them in an engineering perspective through a mathematical and scientific approach in order to explain on the engineering level. 
• Are there specific words, ideas, or modes of presentation that will help me relate to them in this way? 
• I will not only provide statistical concrete facts for everyone but I will also try to appeal to the emotions of the readers in order to connect with them on a deeper level and also appeal to credibility through references to other credible sources. These three different types of appeals will help to make a good well rounded rhetorical situation for the reader to comprehend. 

Reflection: 

I read Olivia's blog post about analyzing audience as well as Grace's blog post about analyzing audience. When I read Olivia's blog post I realized she analyzed the audience of the article which she had read which is different than I did. That being said I still think she did a great job with the analysis and I really liked how she used direct quotes to make her points specific in who the author is trying to speak to. Grace's blog post was insightful in that she pretty much knows what the majority of what her audience will think but still respects the opposite side of the argument too. I think this is very important to do in the rhetorical project and I will keep this in mind as I begin to draft up my rhetorical writing.