Jarrod Newman Quiz 1 1. To inform your audience with sharing data and explaining processes. To express your thoughts, opinions, and emotions a diary being the purest form. To persuade others to share your opinions. Every one, to some degree, writes everything in a persuasive form. 2. The Modes are actually various mental approaches or patterns of thinking about any topic. Narrative – telling a story to make a point. Cause/Effect – analyzing the causes and/or the effects of something. 3. An approving audience – this audience is already in basic agreement with wt you have to say. A hostile Audience – this reader is at the apposite end of the scale from the approving reader A neutral or skeptical audience – this audience is neither approving nor hostile but are willing to listen to what you have to say. 4. The Expert Reader – The expert reader is highly informed and would be able to understand any slang, jargony, or any specialized terms. The Moderately informed reader – this reader knows less than the expert but more than a member of the general public does. He can understand some inside words but not as many as the expert would. The Layman Reader – this reader should be conceived as to have an 8th grade reading level. Everything has to be spelled out for them. 5. The logical appeal – appeal you use any time you use logic to argue a point. The Emotional Appeal – when you appeal to the audience’s feelings rather than to their intellect. The Ethical appeal – when you cite some other source or better-know authority for support in making your point stick. Grading Criteria 6. A precise constant focus – not switching your topic back and forth. Clear pattern of organization – all documents should have effective introductions, main bodies, and conclusions. Adequate Development – assuming that your audience understands or agrees with you thought or topics. Effective error control – the grammar part Use of formatting features – headings and subheadings, white space, graphics, and bulleted and numbered lists. 7. Understanding the audiences needs – not leaving them in the dark, explaining your topic thoroughly enough. Purpose of the document – keeping to what you want the listeners to get out of your story. Level of difficulty of the topic – giving enough and valid information on your topic. Primary and secondary audiences – knowing that the two have different needs and try not to over or under do your work.