Discussion Post: Considering Your Audience
Up to this point in the course, you have focused on the academic process of researching, evaluating sources, and writing an exploration document that is mostly for you and your instructor. This week, you started to look into evaluating your audience for a presentation and considering how you might tailor your writing or speaking to fit a specific audience. What challenges does trying to communicate your analysis of a work of art, literature, or music present? In your post, describe a time you had to explain the impact of a song, television show, book, movie, or some other work from the humanities to someone who was not familiar with the work.
In your post, make sure you answer the following questions:
a) How did explaining the impact of the work go?
b) What challenges arose?
c) How did your explanation change based on your audience's education level, age, gender, cultural background, relationship to you, and so on?
The response must include a reference list. One-inch margins, double-space, Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font and APA style of writing and citations.