FOCUS ON WRITING. Find a short article related to your major (or part of a long article or a selection from your textbook for an advanced course). Choose a piece written at the highest level of...

FOCUS ON WRITING. Find a short article related to your major (or part of a long article or a selection from your textbook for an advanced course). Choose a piece written at the highest level of technicality you can understand. Using the Audience Analysis Worksheet, write down the assumptions about the audience made by the author. What kind of audience did the author have in mind? What audience characteristics did she or he assume? What are the purposes of this document? Now, working with a partner in class, discuss a different audience (laypeople, mixed audience, novices) for this topic. Write about the changes that you might make to turn this article into something accessible to a new audience.