Chapter 3. Essentials_Video_Audience

3.1 Lesson 3 Essentials Video: Audience

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Lesson 3 Essentials Video: Audience

Watch the video below to see how students like you have understood and interacted with their audience.

Students in order of appearance: Timothy, Deonta, Ashia, Matt, Brad, Aime’e, Gregg, Kendra

Exercise: Integrate the video

Question

Write a substantial paragraph or two, with a topic sentence or mini-thesis, through which you respond to this video as you form your own definitions of audience and develop strategies for interactive with and understanding your readers. You might begin by identifying the moments that stand out to you the most. Which student videos seem to make the most sense to you? With whom do you agree? Disagree? What patterns do you find among the student sound bites? Which ideas were the most instructive or helpful to you? What surprised you? How have your own ideas about the word “writer” come into focus through the videos?

Yadirys testifies that interacting with her instructors during office hours was the key to her improvement as a college writer. And Dan argues that researching your audience is almost as important as the topic itself. You approach to audience may be different, but as long as you are keeping audience needs in mind as you write, you will make strong, effective connections with your readers.