Assignment: write an audience analysis of a restaurant review of your choice from the New York Times, Washington Post, or Los Angeles Times. Writing down what you know about an audience will help you focus your own writing for the needs of particular readers, a key to succeeding in writing always. Technical writing, one of the primary forms of writing you will do in the workforce, is primarily written for the reader, not the writer. The more you know about your audience, the more you can help that audience understand your work. In this assignment, you will describe and analyze the intended audience for a published restaurant review to help you better understand how writers approach an audience more generally. Produce your analysis using the guidelines below. Audience Analysis Guidelines 1. Who will read this review? Is the audience simple and homogeneous? or multiple and heterogeneous? Does the audience(s) have multiple needs? How will the above affect the contents of the writers communication? 2. What are the audiences needs? What problem is the writer trying to solve? What kind of socio-economic status does the audience likely fall into? What does the audience know and not know? What are the audiences professional backgrounds, educational backgrounds, and field(s) of expertise? Does the audience(s) have experience with the ideas and concepts the writer is presenting? 3. Under what conditions is the audiences reading this review? Is there anything unusual or less than ideal about the time and place that the audience takes in the review? How does that affect the contents and design of the review?
