On the Role of Purpose and Audience in Writing
Making Connections
After watching On the Role of Purpose and Audience in Writing, consider the questions below. Then submit your response.
Karen Keaton Jackson offers advice for considering purpose and audience when you’re writing. To understand your rhetorical context, you will also want to consider the author (in this case, Jackson’s students) and topic. How do these two factors contribute to what students might tell their professor? How do they contribute to what students might tell their best friends?
On the surface, the example in the video asks students to consider two completely different audiences. How might the audience also change the purpose of the information shared? (For example, you might want to share information to impress your friend but conceal something from an instructor.)
What is another situation where you may present the same information very differently depending on your purpose or your audience?