Day 17: Purpose, Audience, and Tone

Objectives:
* To narrow our chosen topic for the GRP
* To choose the audience (organization) for our GRP

CONSIDERING AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE

First, read the Audience and Purpose Discussion handout. Next, get together with one of your classmates and discuss the questions in pairs. Consider these two writing samples from the same student, Fatimeh Ghazi (Egypt), but with different audiences. One was written to a friend back home and the other was written for a class on social relations. Look how the emphasis changes depending on the author's relationship with the audience.

1. Consider the following differences between the two: vocabulary, examples used, sentence structure, use of pronouns, specifics mentioned, organization, tone.

2. What did the writer include in the first example that she left out in the second? Why?

3. What did she include in the second that she left out in the first? Why?

II. Important to remember:
Every paper needs a purpose and an audience. The audience needs to be decided early, before writing the first draft. Are you writing for the Ministry of Education of you country? for the government agency in charge of dealing with your particular topic?

For the Guided Research Paper we are going to choose an organization, analyze one of its solutions to the problem and then write our paper having the organization as our audience.
In pairs, google a couple of organizations that have tried to give a solution to the GRP problem. Each pair should submit at least one organization or policy maker and two or three solutions that the organization/policy maker is working on to address the problem preferably with their own detailed website.

Guidelines for the GRP


Homework:
1. Go to Dropbox and upload your suggestion on a narrowed topic for homelessness. Write the name of the organization you propose and its website email address. This is due Saturday at 12:00 midnight.
2. If your topic was approved, start your pre-research and proceed to narrow it to a manageable size. Next, conduct a research for an organization/policy maker whose solutions you can analyze. Follow the same guidelines we did today for the GRP.
Once you have this information, create a new folder on Dropbox and label it:

IRP_topic and organization

Upload it by next class (Monday, Feb. 27).

Sources:
Faivre, S. and Rosado, C. (2012). Audience and Purpose. ESL 115 TA Resources.
http://esl115ta.blogspot.com/2012/02/audience-purpose.html