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    Task and Audience Analysis Exercises

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    This document provides exercises to analyze tasks and audiences. The first exercise asks the reader to identify which details from a list would be most relevant for different audiences regarding a research project on thunderstorms. The second exercise compares how the purpose, content, and format of documents would differ for various audience combinations on topics like internet privacy, Lyme disease, and foodborne illness. The third exercise asks the reader to compare the intended audience and purpose of an end-of-term course evaluation versus a RateMyProfessor.com entry. The overall document aims to teach audience analysis and how to tailor document content and format to specific target audiences.

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    This document provides exercises to analyze tasks and audiences. The first exercise asks the reader to identify which details from a list would be most relevant for different audiences regarding a research project on thunderstorms. The second exercise compares how the purpose, content, and format of documents would differ for various audience combinations on topics like internet privacy, Lyme disease, and foodborne illness. The third exercise asks the reader to compare the intended audience and purpose of an end-of-term course evaluation versus a RateMyProfessor.com entry. The overall document aims to teach audience analysis and how to tailor document content and format to specific target audiences.

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    This document provides exercises to analyze tasks and audiences. The first exercise asks the reader to identify which details from a list would be most relevant for different audiences regarding a research project on thunderstorms. The second exercise compares how the purpose, content, and format of documents would differ for various audience combinations on topics like internet privacy, Lyme disease, and foodborne illness. The third exercise asks the reader to compare the intended audience and purpose of an end-of-term course evaluation versus a RateMyProfessor.com entry. The overall document aims to teach audience analysis and how to tailor document content and format to specific target audiences.

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    Task and Audience Analysis Exercises

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    This document provides exercises to analyze tasks and audiences. The first exercise asks the reader to identify which details from a list would be most relevant for different audiences regarding a research project on thunderstorms. The second exercise compares how the purpose, content, and format of documents would differ for various audience combinations on topics like internet privacy, Lyme disease, and foodborne illness. The third exercise asks the reader to compare the intended audience and purpose of an end-of-term course evaluation versus a RateMyProfessor.com entry. The overall document aims to teach audience analysis and how to tailor document content and format to specific target audiences.

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    Task and Audience Analysis Exercise

    Exercise 1: What to include? What to leave out?


    Table 1 contains a collection of details about a research project
    you have just completed on thunderstorms. Imagine that you're
    writing documents for each of the 5 following audiences:
    A. Your boss
    B. Scientists
    C. The general public
    D. Politician
    E. Students

    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.

    Table 1. Details About Your Research Project On Thunderstorms


    C The dollar damage caused by thunderstorms each year.
    E A literature review of previous research on thunderstorms.
    B Descriptions of calibration procedures for your instruments.
    B Some basic physics of how thunderstorms work.
    A How much your project costs.
    E A log of all your measurements during the whole project.
    A A list of everyone who worked on the project.
    B Specifications of a new instrument to measure hail size.
    B A new result showing a connection between lightning intensity and
    total rainfall.
    B A new result showing how to suppress hail.
    B New insights into the flow patterns around thunderstorms.
    E Procedures you used to avoid statistical biases in your data.
    E Your plans for further measurements.
    E Your recommendations for future research.
    Exercise 2: Compare audience needs

    What differences in purpose, content, and format would you need to consider in the
    following examples:

    1) A report on Internet Privacy Issues for a new internet user


    for an e-commerce website developer

    2) Information on Lyme Disease for camping enthusiasts


    for a family practice physician
    for public health department

    3) Food born diseases for a restaurant worker


    for a health inspector training manual

    4) Proposal for a new bus shelter design Mayor’s office


    Contractor
    Newspaper reporter

    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.

    Table 2. Audience Analysis Schematic


    4 categories of Examples/roles Kind of information
    audiences required:
    General public
    Laypeople Non-Specialists
    General “users”
    Decision Makers
    Executives (manage resources and people)

    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.

    End of term Course Evaluation a Ratemyprofessor.com entry


    Purpose

    Audience

    Author

    What details
    would you
    include?
    What info
    would your
    audience
    expect?

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