Audience Analysis Article, Lizzy and Madison

Audience Analysis and Persuasive Writing at the College Level
By: Kathleen Black
According to the article, “research suggests that audience awareness, consciously using ideas about an audience to create or revise text could be a key factor in helping explain differences in writing ability.” The article is a study that gave half the participants given information about the audience and not to the other half. The results showed that the higher audience analysis the more persuasive. The author claims that higher levels of education with more audience analyses leads to higher level of persuasion present.

Audience Analysis and Persuasive Writing at the College Level. Kathleen Black. Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Oct., 1989), pp. 231-253. Published by: National Council of Teachers of English. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40171145