Determine an audience and purpose for writing. 0501.3.1

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1. Adapting to Your Audience - adjust the message - how we say to and what information we include - by recognizing that different readers can best understand different messages
2. Audience - [somewhat advanced] This handout, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will help you understand and write for the appropriate audience when you write an academic essay
3. Audience Analysis - article - audience analysis can help you gain valuable insight about your readers
4. Audience and Purpose - lab activity to help students write with a purpose for an audience [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
5. Audience and Purpose - another lab activity to help students write with a purpose for an audience [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
6. Audience Awareness - [somewhat advanced] these suggestions from the University Writing Center of Texas A & M University include remarks about reaching out to the audience in the introduction
7. Determining your Audience - [designed for grade 2 - use for remediation] online lesson followed by an activity
8. Determining your Audience Quiz - [designed for grade 2 - use for remediation] five questions related to the lesson above
9. Identify your Audience - [designed for grade 4] Read each paragraph and choose the correct audience
10. Identify your Audience - [designed for grade 4] Lesson and follow up activity
11. Identifying a Targeted Audience - this lesson plan includes a page to print for your students as a worksheet as they look through magazines you provide to look for ways that advertisers target specific audiences.
12. In Search of an Audience - lesson and exercise - consider what attitudes and assumptions potential audience members will bring with them
13. An Introduction to Plain Language - Plain language is communication designed to meet the needs of the intended audience.
14. Know your audience - [designed for grade 3 - use for remediation] online quiz
15. Targeting Your Audience - No matter what the writing project, you should plan to write to someone.
16. Teaching Audience through Interactive Writing - Lesson plan that can be adapted for this grade level - students work together to create a genuine invitation letter for a group of their peers. In addition to the interactive writing experience, students work independently to create invitation letters for their families. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
17. Thought Starters (Asking the Right Questions) - strategies for writing [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
18. Write to Your Targeted Audience - Although this page is designed to help people writing web pages, it includes some very good suggestions for your students.
19. Writing Guide: Audience - Recognize that different readers can best understand different messages
20. Writing: Identifying Your Audience - stages of writing assessment

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