Reporting Information
Prompt:
For this assignment, you will compose a600-900 wordsummary of information about a topic of your choosing geared towards a particular audience of your choosing.
Important Features:
A topic carefully focused for a specific audience: why would your audience be interested in your topic? How do you best explain your topic to your audience?
Definitions of key terms: what terms will your audience need to know to understand your topic?
Trustworthy information: what sources are you using for information on your topic?
Appropriate organization and design: what steps must you take to give a full understanding of this topic?
A confident informative tone: do you sound like you know what you are talking about?
Guidance:
Read your paper aloud as frequently as youcan, orhave someone else read it to you. Reading aloud forces you to pay close attention to what your papersaysand you are more likely to spot or hear problems when reading aloud.
Address your audience appropriately. You neither want to go over youraudienceshead or speak down to them. You must find the sweet spot where your audience feels that you are informing them but not calling them ignorant.
Be clear about your purpose. Are you providing new information on a known topic, clearing up a misconception, introducing the audience to something new, or arguing for a new way to consider your topic?
Consider your stance. What are the various perspectives on your topic? How do they agree and disagree with your own stance?
Consider the larger context. How does this topic fit into the world around it? How does knowledge about this topic help your audience understand the rest of their world?