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Understanding Audience 
Purpose
We will progress our discussion to talking about conducting field research and writing up that research. You will also have the opportunity to have your research plan reviewed by your peers.
Freewrite
In Chapter 61 (pp. 822-831) of the SMH, Lunsford provides some suggestions for learning how to write for specific audiences across the campus. Although the audiences most of you are writing for are not professors in academic disciplines, what specific suggestions can you tweak to make relevant to writing for specific audience in another context, like the ones you are writing to.
Discussion–Conducting Research
We will discuss your responses to the freewrite and the following questions:
- How does rhetoric principles help us think about how we will approach our audience?
- How does genre principles help us think about how we will approach our audience?
- How does grammar help us think about how we will approach our audience?
Workshop–Getting to Know You
Use the remaining class time to do some textual research on the Internet about your respective audience. Address the following questions:
- What does the internet say about the audience you have chosen?
- How is this different from your preconceived notions of this audience?
- How will this affect how you will use rhetoric, genre, and grammar principles?