Paying Attention to Audience

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From UNC Chapel Hill: discusses how to identify your audience and putting yourself in the reader’s position

From WAC Clearinghouse: discusses different types of audiences and developing audience awareness

From COMPASS: This rhetorical tool supports science writers in identifying their audience and crafting a compelling message. 

By Nigel Caplan: This blog post describes how to use the Rhetorical Planning Wheel to break down any writing assignment and build any text through consideration of genre, audience, context, and more.

An audio soundbank of 40 rhetorical moves from historical speeches. The site also includes an archive of the "top 100 speeches" throughout U.S. history.