What Are They Communicating?
In this course, students will identify the audience and purpose in various texts.
Jessica Ulmer
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:(3)
What's included
1 live meeting
55 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
Understanding audience and purpose are essential for communicating with the world around you. Communiticating effectively requires knowing how to adapt for your audience while still achiveing your purpose. The best way to understand how to do that for yourself is to look at how others do it. In this one time workshop, we'll first discuss what audience and purpose are and why they are important. Then, we'll look at various texts to understand how main characters/writers have structured their arguments based on who they are talking to and what they hope to accomplish. This involves pinpointing the person who is speaking, who they are speaking to, what they are saying, and why they are saying it. We'll then discuss how this same strategy can be used when writing for classes or careers. I'll model the kinds of questions you can ask when analyzing any number of texts. I encourage students to brainstorm their own examples of audience and purpose from other shows that they watch as well. I'll also provide an extension activity where students can compose a character sketch and analysis paragraph.
Learning Goals
- understand the importance of audience and purpose in academic and popular texts.
- identify audience and purpose in a variety of texts.
- compose an analysis paragraph
- complete an optional character sketch
Other Details
Parental Guidance
In this class, we will be looking at various text. Some of the texts are geared toward adolescents and may include topics not suitable for younger viewers. But ages for all of my classes are largely a suggestion and if your learner is interested in what we're doing in this course, I'd love to get to know them.
This class has a firm maximum at 12 learners in order to give every learner a chance to participate in our discussion. Siblings are always welcome to share computers; all learners attending the class need to be enrolled.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined March, 2020
5.0
3reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
Doctoral Degree in Speech Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech
I have 14 years of experience teaching middle, secondary, and postsecondary Literacy courses. It is very important that students are able to correctly identify audience and purpose in a variety of texts by the time they enter college.Reviews
Live One-Time Class
$15
per classMeets once
55 min
Completed by 2 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 12-15
1-12 learners per class
