Digital Journal #7
This morning in class, I offered you a workshop on the explanatory comma. We discussed this defining or explaining device as a rhetorical tool in our writing. We talked about audience. When analyzing, not only does a writer need to consider the audience of that which we analyze, but we also must consider the audience to which we are writing. Are we explaining enough? Have we defined key terms that may need further explanation?
Just because you clearly understand a term or a situation, does not mean the next person will. So, who is your audience? What might need to be clarified? What doesn’t? And maybe, what will you not explain or define further for your reader - as in what will you expect your reader to understand as they approach your writing?
These are all questions to consider and to possibly answer in your response to this digital journal prompt.
In this digital journal, please consider the “item” that you will be analyzing.
Who is its audience? Is there an intended audience? Has that audience grown as this item (image, meme, gif, artifact) has been passed around or shared?
Are there terms or concepts that you may use to analyze your chosen “item,” that may need to be explained in depth?
Please offer at least a paragraph of thinking of your audience and a paragraph of thinking about the audience of your chosen “item.”
Your response to this prompt is due before our class meeting on Wednesday, October 2.
