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ENGH 302 Issue, Audience, and Genre Analysis Instruction
Issue, Audience, and Genre Analysis Worksheet Instructions
OVERVIEW
In this assignment, you will answer a series of questions rather than write a unified essay. CITE
ALL INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT ORIGINATE WITH YOU.
These questions ask you to do the following:
● Describe an appropriately narrowed, current (within the last 12-18 months), and
unresolved issue relevant to your field of study. Explain what caused this controversial
issue to arise and why people disagree about how it should be resolved.
● Identify an audience for the issue you chose who disagrees, in part or in total, and analyze
the audience’s position. The audience must have decision-making authority or
considerable influence over the outcome of the issue.
● Explain your position on that issue.
● Analyze that audience’s biases and potential counterarguments.
● Analyze the Advocacy Letter genre for the final research project essay.
● Complete the end-page reflection.
MAKE SURE YOU DISAGREE WITH THE POSITION TAKEN BY YOUR
AUDIENCE. Therefore, you must conduct sufficient research about your audience.
INSTRUCTIONS
● Download and open the “Issue, Audience, and Genre Analysis Worksheet” document
included in the assignment on Blackboard.
● Enter your responses to the questions directly on the worksheet.
● NOTE that you are not writing a formal essay; you are answering a series of questions
only.
● You should have two well-developed paragraphs, each with cited evidence, per question.
The bulk of your grade will be based on the substance and critical analyses in your responses.
Save your file using the following file naming protocol: FirstNameLastNameAnalysis.
SOURCES: Your understanding of the issue, the audience, and your own stance will be more
impressive if you use the most credible evidence you can find to support and illustrate your
claims. At least one of your sources must come from a scholarly journal. The bulk of your
evidence should reflect an in-depth use of the library databases.
Make sure you effectively and ethically integrate your sources and cite them accurately.
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DOCUMENTATION: Include in-text citations and a references (APA) page or works cited
(MLA) page at the end of this document.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this process, you should be able to do the following:
● To research and analyze an active conversation about an issue relevant to your field of
study.
● To develop a research question about that issue.
● To identify and analyze an audience who has decision-making authority over that issue.
● Analyze that audience and discover how that audience will affect your research and
writing.
● Analyze the advocacy letter genre you will use to write to that audience to learn how it
will shape your final argument.
● Find, evaluate, integrate, and cite highly credible sources.
This assignment, developed by the George Mason Composition Program, is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.)
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ENGH 302 Issue, Audience, and Genre Analysis Worksheet
Issue, Audience, and Genre Analysis Worksheet
INSTRUCTIONS
Enter your responses to the follow questions directly on this Word document. Save the
document using the following file name: FirstNameLastNameAnalysis
Some questions will require more content to answer than others, but you should aim for two
substantive paragraphs for each question. Make sure you cite your sources, and cite only
sources your audience would respect. Your evidence should include information from
at least one scholarly source.
QUESTIONS
NAME OF YOUR DISCIPLINE:
YOUR refined and narrowed RESEARCH QUESTION:
1. THE ISSUE: Describe the appropriately narrowed, current, and unresolved issue
relevant to your field of study. Explain what caused this controversial issue to arise and why
people disagree about how it should be resolved. Make sure it is either about to happen or is
just getting underway, which means it have arisen as a controversy within the last 12-18
months.
Be specific. Do not choose overly broad issues that have been debated for a long time, such
as “legalizing marijuana.” Think much more narrowly, such as a specific piece of legislation at
the federal or state level that has not yet been voted upon (e.g., how a specific state
considering legalizing marijuana plans to negotiate the federal prohibition against its use). Use
credible evidence to indicate the source of your information, integrate it effectively and
ethically, and cite it accurately.
2. THE AUDIENCE: Identify and describe a primary audience who has direct influence over
the issue you researched and analyzed in your annotated bibliography. Explain the audience’s
vested interest (decision-making authority) in the issue and describe any current events or
trends that may be currently affecting your audience’s interests. Use credible evidence to
indicate the source of your information, integrate it effectively and ethically, and cite it
accurately.
3. AUDIENCE’S POSITION (the audience’s argument): What position does the audience
have on the issue you chose? Note that audiences do not always spell out their positions. You
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will need to conduct research in newspapers, trade publications, and journals to collect the
necessary information about your audience’s position. Use credible evidence to indicate the
source of your information, integrate it effectively and ethically, and cite it accurately.
4. AUDIENCE BIAS: What values and beliefs does your audience have that would create
biases against your position? Remember that everyone involved in a controversy will have
biases, so having them is not a sign of weakness. It just means you would need to consider
those biases when writing to the audience. Use credible evidence to indicate the source of
your information, integrate it effectively and ethically, and cite it accurately.
5. YOUR POSITION ON THE ISSUE: Identify and explain your stance on this issue and why
you disagree with the audience. THE FIRST SENTENCE OF YOUR RESPONSE WILL BE
YOUR THESIS, OR THE ANSWER TO YOUR RESEARCH QUESTION THAT YOU WILL
SUPPORT WITH EVIDENCE.
Provide reasons for your position. Use credible evidence to indicate the source of your
information, integrate it effectively and ethically, and cite it accurately. Use the evidence to
defend your position.
6. CONCESSION and COUNTERARGUMENT: Describe elements of your audience’s position
that you sympathize with (concession) so that you can acknowledge the counterarguments to
your stance. Next, refute what you can about the audience’s position with evidence-based
counterargument of your own. Use credible evidence to indicate the source of your
information, integrate it effectively and ethically, and cite it accurately.
7. EVIDENCE: What types of evidence would your audience expect to see in order to be
persuaded by your argument? Most audiences who hold decision-making authority over an
issue are sophisticated and knowledgeable. Think carefully about what it would take to
persuade your audience to change its stance or at least agree to a compromise on the issue.
Use credible evidence to indicate the source of your information, integrate it effectively and
ethically, and cite it accurately.
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8. GENRE: Find two examples of an advocacy letter that includes cited sources other than the
one we went over in class. (Provide links to these examples or submit them along with your
completed worksheet).
Describe the way in which the authors establish their ethos, or credibility to speak about the
issue. Why would the target audience be interested in these authors? Next, describe the
structure and format of the advocacy letter. How does that structure and format shape what the
authors say and how they say it?
END-PAGE REFLECTION (200-250 WORDS)
1. Describe any challenges you encountered in identifying a current and unresolved issue
relevant to your field. What types of questions (inquiry) about the topic you chose did you use
to identify the issue?
2. Describe the process you used to identify an audience with a vested interest in this issue
and with whom you disagree.
3. Identify one thing you learned about your audience that will have the greatest impact on how
you shape your argument.
Failure to include the End-Page Reflection results in an automatic 10-point deduction in
your essay.
Make sure you include a works cited or reference page.
This assignment, developed by the George Mason Composition Program, is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
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