TCR - Week 11 - Audience Awareness

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Audience awareness. Students will analyze audience and purpose in rhetorical situations and make appropriate choices. Measurement: observation and analysis of artifacts produced, including active participation in classroom discussion and blogs.

I'll be talking more about a few things related to this in my Week 15 post, because "audience awareness" seem to be the most important learning objective in our course. Whether, we consider critical thinking, multicultural perspectives, teaching processes, reflection, audience awareness is an integral part of everything we do as educators, as researchers, as practitioners.

I've valued our discussions on the implications that globalization and hyperconnectivity has on composition studies, specifically surrounding notions of audience. This has impacted the way I think about academic digital reading, the way I think about how I need to teach audience to first-year composition students, the way I think about audience for professional development, publication, and beyond. The business world and marketing understand this notion of a global audience much better than composition studies seems to be addressing the reality of hyperconnectivity. Even wiki-how has a grasp on global audience.

For us personally and professionally to understand how our professional presence online has the potential to impact any number of audiences, including students, parents, educators, administrators, granting institutions, publishers, colleagues, potential employers, and audiences around the world which could take on any number of the aforementioned roles, should give us pause. We need to think reflectively about each artifact that manifests who we are in the digital world, because we have the ability (I'm seriously thinking of the scene is Spiderman now. You know what scene I'm thinking of. Okay, for those of you who don't I'll post it after I've made my point) to reach audiences around the globe and beyond our own time. This should give greater weightiness to our choices, our decisions of what we do with our time, our energy, our lives.

Mary De Nora - November 14, 2015

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Fin.

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Now, I'm just going to entertain myself: