Task and Audience Analysis Exercises
Task and Audience Analysis Exercises
Task and Audience Analysis Exercises
What information about thunderstorms might each ask you for? As you go down the list,
write in the blank spaces in front of each detail the letter that correspond to the audiences
that you think would find this detail most relevant. Consider what kind of document might
contain that information for that audience.
What differences in purpose, content, and format would you need to consider in the
following examples:
Use the schematic in Table 2 to determine what kind of document with what kind of
content would be appropriate for the various audiences above.
Advisors
Experts (use their expertise to help
decision makers)
Technicians Implementers
Exercise 3: Task and Audience Analysis
Compare these two tasks in terms of intended audience and purpose.
Audience
Author
What details
would you
include?
What info
would your
audience
expect?