Know Your Audience & Development, Support, and Evidence
Your learning objective 3 is about knowing your audience and writing specifically for that audience. Please complete the following:
- Read 11.3- Development, Support, or Evidence (page 362-367)
- Read 9.4-9.7- Know Your Audience (page 328-333)
- Answer the discussion post below using the information from these two reading assignments.
Project 1- Powerpoint “What is Art?” is due on Sunday (our first BIG assignment). You should have an active thesis, supporting arguments, and a good impression based on our readings of what “art” is, already completed by now (done in Module 1- Writing Assignment 1 & readings completed in Module 2). For your PowerPoint project, you will be pretending to be a tour guide at a local art museum. Your job is to present six out of nine works of art (on pages 308-313) to first-time visitors at the art museum and explain to them why these works are considered art. Please see the Powerpoint Assignment in this week’s module for exact details for this project. Also, review pages 308-313 for specific details for this project- this assignment is in the textbook. Think about the audience you are composing this presentation for. How can you explain to them, first-time visitors to the museum, what you have defined as “art”? How can you explain your reasons for defining art that way? How can you explain why certain works are not art? What is your reasoning for that definition? Then you might explain and defend your definition. Remember to back up your position with evidence, details, examples, logic, and facts. You can use outside sources (I welcome it) but be sure to properly document these sources to avoid plagiarism. You can also use the supporting evidence and list you created in Writing Assignment 1 in module 1.
For our discussion post below- answer these questions (you can use these examples in your PowerPoint project). Think about the audience you are composing this presentation for. How can you explain to them, first-time visitors to the museum, what you have defined as “art”? How can you explain your reasons for defining art that way? How can you explain why certain works are not art? What is your reasoning? Tell me whether you plan to use evidence, examples, details, logic, facts, and how you will discuss it keeping in mind that your audience has no art history background and has never been to a museum before? Include at least 20 sentences of in-depth thought and analysis. Be sure to respond to two other student posts with comments and questions in an effort to help them improve their argument. This is a fabulous way to get more ideas for your own Powerpoint project and in return, help make your peer’s projects stronger!
My target audience for the museum tour will be first-time art museum visitors. It is quite likely that the audience will have little to no exposure to art and works of art. Thus, I will have to explain to them what art is and use my definition of art to persuade them why the works of art I will be presenting qualify as art. Defining art to the audience will be aimed at convincing the first-time museum visitors to be more appreciative of the same. It might also help turn the visitors into art connoisseurs.
