Researcher: Travis

Major Topic: Audience

Concept/
Term

Definition/Explanation

Tutoring Implications

Audience

Role, group, or concept used

Consider who the tutee is writing to. Consider the
as the anticipated readership
conventions, inferred knowledge, demeanor, etc.
of a particular work or
commonly associated with the intended audience.
project

Pedants
Stance

Undervaluing the
relationship between
speaker and writer

Advertisers
Stance

Can be found in papers that fervently attempt to stir up

Overvaluing persuasive
the crowd but have little in the way of details on the
means and undervaluing the subject. Encourage the writer to inform the audience with
subject
data, events, or experiences that support and justify their
call to action.

Entertainers Choosing personality over

Stance
substance

A common fallback for novice writers who lack

confidence in their voice or lack interest. Urge the author
to inject some of their personal tone and emotion into the
paper instead of using statements alone.

A paper that seeks to please the crowd more than change

or inform it. Try to refocus the writer and redirect towards
the aim of the project.

Moments when the author

reads the text from the
perspective of a potential
audience

As a tutor, attempt to engage the tutee with their work

from the perspective of someone reading it. If you were
a comic book fan, would this be interesting?. If you
were a male, how would you read this?.

Scenario

Circumstances and goals

that create the targeted
audience

Try to assist the tutee with incorporating the discipline,

the context, the target audience, the setting and other
factors that play a part in the discourse taking place within
the paper. Do you think scientist still refer to this as
___?. By writing this, you exclude this group but gain
this group.

Revolving
Writer

The writer can continually

fill or shift between a
variety of roles that shape
his/her writing

Attempt to get tutee to read/write from the various roles

he/she takes part in. Write this from the pov of a
fisherman instead of a student.. Do you connect more
with this sentence more as a author or a reader?.

Absent
Audience

State where writing is

intended for no one to read

Private writing can have immense effects on public

writing. Suggest writing in journal form to examine a
topic or to find inspiration.

Flexible
Audience

The tutor could consider the audience flexible and assist

Audience that constantly
the writer in recognizing the changing demands of the
adapts as the writing process paper. If the paper takes a very technical turn due to
matures
research, update the overall structure, tone, and formatting
to meet this more subject savvy crowd.

Rhetorical

Value placed on rhetoric and Explain the value of rhetorical moves used within
rhetorical conventions in
papers to tutees. The attention-getter does.

Writer as
Reader