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ERIC Number: EJ581429
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0098-6291
Up Close and Personal: A Real-World Audience Awareness Assignment.
Ellis, Shelley M.
Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v26 n3 p286-90 Mar 1999
Describes an assignment for a sophomore-level technical-writing course which teaches students to respond to different audiences with different needs by having them analyze and then respond to actual complaint letters (on the same topic but from two very different people). Includes successful and unsuccessful responses generated by the students. (SR)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audience Awareness, Business Correspondence, Higher Education, Technical Writing, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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