Writer's Toolbox For Building Arguments
Writing Strategy: Analyzing Your Audience


Use the following questions to explore what you know about your intended audience for your argument.

1.  

Who is your audience?

2.  

How much does your audience know or care about your issue?

3.  

What is your audience's current attitude toward your issue?

4.  

What will be your audience's likely objections to your argument?

5.  

What values, beliefs, or assumptions about the world do you and your audience share?

6.  

What argumentative strategies are you considering to reach this audience?

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