Audience
Lay Audience ♦ Resistant Audience ♦ Expert Audience
- Does your assignment assume a general adult audience, a resistant audience, or an expert audience?
- Audience type establishes the type of vocabulary and the tone students should use.
- Is the audience professional, everyday citizens, peer, teacher, college community, general public, U.S., international, familiar with the topic, or newbies?
- Audience will determine how much summary and explanation are needed for a particular topic.
- Audience also determines the type and number of research sources.
