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Puma, Vincent D. – 1986
A study explored the complexities of audience adaptation by examining the relationships between writer/audience proximity, register, and overall quality in essays written for assigned audiences. Subjects, 100 college freshmen, each wrote one essay in response to two audience-specified tasks in which subjects were to write persuasive letters to…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audiences, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition
Santelmann, Patricia K. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1987
Describes a technical writing assignment designed to teach (1) audience awareness, (2) strategies for analytical problem solving, (3) an understanding of the patterns of organization that make the information clear to the intended audience, and (4) a mastery of the editing skills needed to make writing correct and concise. (SRT)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Editing, Higher Education, Problem Solving
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Kurth, Anita – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1987
Investigates the implications of conceiving writing-as-performance. Claims that public speaking compares closely with a writing-as-performance course. Focuses on students' perception of themselves as writers and of their audience and presents several analogies comparing writing with other performance activities. (JD)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Public Speaking, Teaching Methods, Two Year Colleges
Morrissey, Thomas J. – 1983
In the "real" world of writing, people make writing decisions based in part on their analyses of audience expectations and their own purposes. Yet, composition teachers at all levels assign general or abstract topics for essays rather than create writing tasks that require students to reflect on target audiences. Even students are aware…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Rainey, Kenneth T. – 1987
Many essayists on writing believe that a student's level of cognitive development determines the organization of thought expressed by the student's writing and that an individual cannot use language at a level that goes beyond his or her stage of cognitive development. Without the maturation of formal operational structures, students cannot easily…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes