Abortion

Sabrina VanDerwarker

Elisabeth Rutledge

English 1302_71

25 November 2014

Researched Argument Audience Analysis: Abortion

1. Who is your audience? What is the name of the person or group for whom you are writing this argument? Why have you chosen this person or group as your target audience? Why will your argument have exigence for your audience? My audience would be to pregnant women. I have chosen my audience to be pregnant women because women who get pregnant are often asked if they know all their options.

2. How open is your audience to your argument? Is it undecided or hostile? Keep in mind that the more hostile your audience is, the more time you will need to spend establishing common ground between you and your audience. My audience would have to be more towards hostile because abortion is a sensitive subject to some people.

3. How will you organize your argument to accommodate your audience’s level of openness to your position? Will your argument have a classical structure? Will it have a Rogerian structure? Will you be presenting your reasons and evidence before directly stating your thesis? Why, based on your knowledge of your audience, will your argument have the organization you will be using? I will give both of the sides of the argument and keep an open mind when presenting both sides. My argument will have a Rogerian structure and my thesis will come after all the evidence is presented.

4. What are your audience's priorities and goals? What are your audience's concerns and fears? What values and beliefs contribute to these priorities, goals, concerns, and fears? Use this question to help you consider possible objections your audience may have about your argument. The goals for the audience would be to be able to go into the argument with an open mind. A fear or concern would that abortion is ‘okay’.

5. Does your audience fit into a particular age group? If so, what is the age range of your audience? How might the age of...