1. Chapter 2: Audience & Persuasion
Technical Communication: Strategies for College and the Workplace by Dan Jones & Karen Lane
Chapter 2: Audience & Persuasion
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2. The Secret to Successful Technical Communication:
Audience
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3. Your audience should determine...
planning & research
content
purpose
scope
strategies for opening, middle, & closing
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4. Your audience should determine...
organization
prose style
design & illustrations choices
overall tone
type of document or presentation
editing, revising, evaluating required
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5. Understanding Your Audience
Categorical Approach
Grouping according to discourse community or background
Heuristic Approach
Gathering audience information through direct questioning and observation
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6. Other Considerations Primary, Secondary, Multiple Audiences
Levels of Technicality
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7. Technical Communication & Persuasion
Technical writers
interpret information
represent a point of view
advocate a position
argue for one way of understanding information
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8. Reasons to Persuade an Audience...
so that they accept a course of action
so they accept a claim
to motivate them
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9. Strategies for Persuading Audiences
Pathos: appeal to your audience
Ethos: establish your credibility
Logos: strengthen your evidence and reasoning
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