Know Your Audience Analysis

Throughout the course of this semester, I will be writing to an audience of other students. We all seem to be very different and unique, but we do have commonalities like this class, for example. I really enjoyed the Getting to Know Your Audience questions because they helped me get a better understanding of who I'm writing to. I have learned some of the interests of my peers and some things they like. While it may be for various reason, we're all taking this class to improve our writing skills and move forward in our educations. I learned that Ms. A and myself would both like to meet Elvis Presley! I found that pretty interesting. I like how most people didn't have the same answers. I feel like we can learn more from each other if we're all different and have different writing styles and ideas. We'll have much more diversity that way in our class, and I hope that we all gain a lot from this course. Some people's questions surprised me, but I expected some of the questions to be basic and some were (I'm guilty). But some of the responses were very in depth and I can see that my classmates care about what they are trying to say and want to communicate their thoughts. I was surprised at how many answers there were. I know there were extra points, but it seems like everyone answered most of the questions! That's helpful because we can learn more about each other if we are engaged in that way. An online course can be difficult to know who your audience is because we don't get to interact in a classroom with each other. My classmates have done a very good job at expressing who they are through discussion posts, responses, and their blogs. I especially like the blogs because those are the most expressive, I think. I feel that through the Getting to Know Your Audience questions and other posts online, I've gotten a good feel of who my audience is.