Writer’s Journal

NO SOURCES REQUIRED

Background

Reflecting on the distinction between audience addressed and audience invoked is a great conceptual starting point as you begin to think about the complexities of audience.

Purpose

In this journal entry, you will have the opportunity to reflect on a recent act of communication where you invoked an audience that did not match up with the audience addressed in that particular situation, and you will be able to consider how you might have acted otherwise given your developing understanding of audience.

Skills and Outcomes

Interpreting a past rhetorical situation (Rhetorical Knowledge; Critical Thinking, Reading and Composing)
Differentiating audience invoked and audience addressed in a past rhetorical situation (Rhetorical Knowledge; Critical Thinking, Reading and Composing)
Producing an alternative communicative plan for a past rhetorical situation (Rhetorical Knowledge; Critical Thinking, Reading and Composing)
Habits of Mind Practiced

Openness
Creativity
Responsibility
Flexibility
Metacognition
Tasks

Your journal entry should describe a past act of communication where your audience invoked did not match up with the audience addressed. How did they differ? Where do you think this difference came from (how did you come to invoke an audience that differed from the audience addressed)?
Your entry should consider how you might invoke an audience in that rhetorical situation that more closely aligned with the audience addressed? What sort of rhetorical choices could you have made in your address that would have more accurately captured who the audience really was?
Note: there are many different ways to approach these tasks, but you should aim to be as thorough as possible in your response (approximately 500 words is a good target length).

Criteria for Success

In each Writer’s Journal, you should:

clearly address each question or task;
employ many details, examples, and explanations in answering each question or task; and,
create an internally-organized text, employing sentences (or notes where applicable) that clearly relate to one another.
Be sure to follow all the submission instructions carefully and to assess your journal immediately after you submit it