Audience Sheet
Game story
The purpose of this audience sheet is to help you imagine an audience who
would read your game story. Since you are not actually publishing your
game story, you'll need to imagine who your readers are, make assumptions
about them, and explain how these assumptions shape your actual writing
decisions.
In 2-3 paragraphs, decscribe assumptions you are making about the
readers of your game story: their knowledge, values, beliefs, and
expectations. (See your class notes from TSGW, Ch 1: Rhetorical Situation.)
How did these assumptions help you make specific writing decisions
about your game story?
Give a few specific examples. For example, how will
your readers' knowlege or lack of knowlege of the sport help you determine
what to include and leave out of your game summary? How much detail do you
need to include when describing plays? How much background information
about the teams is needed? Or based on your assumptions about your
readers' values and beliefs, how will you construct your lead in order
connect to your readers? How will
these values and beliefs help you determine what quotations to include and
where to place them? What tone
to use when discussing the losing team or player mistakes?
Draft your audience sheet using a Word document--audience
sheet should be typed. Draft and revise your audience sheet as you write your outline and
draft.