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Lesson Overview, Learning Outcomes and Checklist

Overview

This unit explores the importance of audience in creating and editing technical documents.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this unit, the student will be able to do the following:

· Recognize, analyze, and accommodate diverse audiences by describing writing for nonacademic audiences, purposes, and occasions.

· Produce documents appropriate to audience, purpose, and genre by applying principles of writing as a process; adjusting language based on audience, purpose, and occasion;

· Locate, evaluate, and incorporate pertinent information by identifying needed material; compiling material from a variety of sources. demonstrating ability to analyze audience and writing appropriately for that audience; using appropriate diction, including precise word choice and varied vocabulary.