On the Role of Purpose and Audience in Writing: Checking Your Understanding

Instructions

Watch the video below and then answer the questions that follow.

On the Role of Purpose and Audience in Writing

After watching On the Role of Purpose and Audience in Writing, consider the questions below. Then submit your response.

Question 1: Who did Karen Keaton Jackson’s students pretend to share their college experience with?

Choice A, Professor Jackson and their parents

Choice B, Professor Jackson and their best friends

Choice C, their best friends and their parents

Choice D, their best friends and another professor

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is B.

Question 2: What did Jackson’s students change depending on the audience?

Choice A, their volume

Choice B, whether they used PowerPoint

Choice C, the location of the conversation

Choice D, their language choices

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is D.

Question 3: With whom does Jackson use this exercise?

Choice A, her first-year students

Choice B, her sophomore students

Choice C, her senior students

Choice D, students who are still in high school

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is A.

Question 4: Which of the following was not among the items her students would discuss with their best friends?

Choice A, who they saw in the cafeteria

Choice B, how to skip the line for lunch

Choice C, who they thought was cute

Choice D, what the parties were like

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is B.

Question 5: Which of the following was not among the items her students would discuss with her?

Choice A, their classes

Choice B, their roommates

Choice C, their pets

Choice D, their professors

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is C.