Dec 8 2008

Our group chose to focus on the people that like excitement and the outdoors. We are going to focus on the activities available around the Provo area such as the ski resorts, the national parks, hot springs, hiking trails, and camping locations. We believe that these are the biggest attractions that BYU has to offer. we are also going to include the education because that is important too. Getting a good college education while still being able to do many outdoor activities is a great combination. The mountains and the scenery and what it offers are some of the greatest attractions BYU has to offer. We will include pictures and make it an attention grabbing brochure filled with excitement and adventure. The other audiences we could have focused on were the sports people, the honor code lovers, or the computer science groupies.

I have learned a lot about audience this semester. It is amazing how each part of the triangle affects the other two parts. By knowing the audience and who I want to focus on then I can change my message and voice to be persuasive to those kinds of people. The audience is why we write in the first place. We write so that someone will read it, and we want someone to read it to try and persuade them on some way of thinking. Knowing who is going to read it and what their way of thinking might be enables the author to adapt his writing to be the most persuasive as possible. This makes writing so much easier. In the future I will be able to write better papers because I will be able to know who I am writing my paper for. By adapting my writing style to specific people, it will take more affect on them. In my future classes I will be able to make stronger arguments because I will know what my message is and how I want to get that message across. Rhetoric is very important in every day of our lives, especially in the workplace. In the future, knowing who my audience is will enable me to be able to get a better job and hopefully make more money. The audience is the key. I don't talk the same to my grandparents as I do to my friends, so I wouldn't write about the same subject the same to two different audiences. The audience dictates how I want to present my message.