Audience Analysis Assignment: 4% of final grade

Goals	This assignment doesn't ask you to write a letter or a memo; rather, it asks you to work out a rhetorical strategy for developing and eventually organizing your big report by answering two sets of questions. Think of this as strategic planning to generate the content of your report.
The Grid	Fill out the audience analysis grid and e-mail it to me as an attached Word file. Click here to go to the grid you'll fill out, then cut and paste it into a Word document. The left-hand column of the grid asks you to create some specific descriptions of your primary and secondary audience(s); the right hand column asks you to make some rhetorical decisions based on those descriptions. Sample filled-out grids for Lucy Ricardo and Nancy Smith are provided for your examination. These both received high grades in previous semesters.
Filling It Out	You may have to do some investigating (for instance, interviews, phone calls) to fill out the left-hand side. You should also look closely at the topics "Audience" and "Readers" in our textbook.
Turn In	Two hard copies in a manila envelope (no e-mail submission for this one!)
Grading	This assignment will be graded by the Rubric.
Notes	Students who have taken this assignment seriously in the past have found it very helpful in developing their rough drafts and final papers. Students who have "blown it off" or left it till the last minute have tended to receive much lower grades on their final papers. A word to the wise should be sufficient.