Pedagogy: Criticality of Audience

This list identifies a number of websites that make unequivocally clear that “audience” is a critical concept and a widely used:
• Audience Research Basics
• Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Organize Content Based on Audience Needs and here
• Office of Citizen Services and Communications and FirstGov.gov
• Simply Put
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Uses of Quality Measurement: Know Your Audience
Know your Audience here

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality You can show students these sites—simply as a display to prompt discussion. Or you can use these sites as the basis for a computer lab activity in which students look for common elements that appear to be of concern to all the groups.

SOURCE: Rebecca E. Burnett. Website to accompany Technical Communication/6th edition. Boston: Thomson International Publishing/Wadsworth, 2005. Available:here.