Assignment 10

Our group is choosing to persuade gymnasts throughout the country to persuade them to join the BYU women's gymnastics team. We chose this audience because half of this group is part of the women's gymnastics team, and we felt we could really persuade this audience well. To make sure that gymnasts are tailored to this brochure, we will include pictures, biographies about the coaches, and information about the facilities and athletic training. That will persuade them since gymnasts would like to see and know the environment they will be in, the coaches they will be with every day, and the places and people they will be with helping them day in and day out. It will be clearly very persuasive. We also thought about persuading football players to come to BYU, since the majority of the group has an interest in football.

Audience is clearly a very important issue in any form of writing. It is important to know who your audience is in your papers. If you do, you can include interesting information to persuade them to side with your viewpoint. You can edit or cut out information that is not needed to your specific audience. When you know who your audience is, you can use different techniques or styles to reel them in. Acknowledging audience is important to any other class, whether it is a research paper, rhetorical analysis, or even a simple blog, like this. I personally will be aware of audience when I write in the future because I am planning on being a journalist. I will be writing several different topics in my life, and I have to alter my writing to appeal to my audience, whoever it may be. Audience is essential to a good paper, and I'm really glad I learned that in this class.