EXERCISE C1–3 Purpose and audience

EXERCISE C1–3Purpose and audience

In each pair, click on the passage that is more effective, given the writer’s purpose and audience.

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EXERCISE C1–3 Purpose and audience - 1 of 10: Which passage would be more effective in a campus newspaper article criticizing the food in the cafeteria’s vending machines?

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EXERCISE C1–3 Purpose and audience - 2 of 10: If you were writing an instruction booklet for machinists, which of these sentences would you choose?

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EXERCISE C1–3 Purpose and audience - 3 of 10: Which of these requests (from a theater’s playbill) is more effective?

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EXERCISE C1–3 Purpose and audience - 4 of 10: Which course description from a student newspaper has more audience appeal? The writer’s purpose is to encourage students to sign up for a course in Asian literature.

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EXERCISE C1–3 Purpose and audience - 5 of 10: In a business letter promoting the writer’s company to an audience aware of the company’s former problems, which of these sentences is likely to be more effective?

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EXERCISE C1–3 Purpose and audience - 6 of 10: In a brochure to be handed out in a medical office, which passage would be more likely to convince patients to take action?

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EXERCISE C1–3 Purpose and audience - 7 of 10: In a newspaper report on an area’s environmental problems, which sentence would better emphasize the reporter’s discovery that Megalocorp was responsible for polluting the river?

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EXERCISE C1–3 Purpose and audience - 8 of 10: In an essay describing the US presidential election of 2000, which sentence would be more dramatic?

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EXERCISE C1–3 Purpose and audience - 9 of 10: If you were organizing an event at a retirement community, which of these notices would you pin to the bulletin board?

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EXERCISE C1–3 Purpose and audience - 10 of 10: Here are two e-mails that a student drafted to send to a professor to request an extension on a paper’s due date. Which one shows more consideration for the audience?