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 18-24 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.
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2. THE AUDIENCE: Identify and describe a primary audience who has direct influence over the issue you researched and analyzed in your annotated bibliography( I WILL SEND YOU MY AB). 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.
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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 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.
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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.Congratulation on specifying the recipient of your advocacy letter! This has been a long, mind-boggling journey for someone and could have been easier decision-making for others. Either way, deciding and analyzing your target audience may feel unfamiliar to most of all unless you have engaged in non-academic writing.
In this space, I want to invite you to reflect on the difference and similarities between writing for academic audiences and writing for public audiences. First, start off with who are/were your academic audience now or previously. Secondly, what were your challenges writing for your academic audience, and how you tacked them? Thirdly, what DIFFERENT challenges you have encountered and dealt with in interacting with your specific, public audience for the advocacy letter project? Last but not least, what strategies are you gaining from writing in the different rhetorical situations? What skills do you or do you not plan to transfer to your future writing? ( JUST SMALL PARAGRAPH)
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