Analyzing audience

In preparation for the Imitation Project Multimodal Memoir, we had to choose a model publication to imitate in terms of style and analyze the audience of that publication during week 7 of Writing 37. I chose to analyze the audience of Teen Vogue as a model publication.

Teen Vogue

My analysis of Teen Vogue's audience

I had to look up the demographics of the audience from the media kit, the teen vogue homepage and mission statement to gather important information of their primary audience. Information about the audience helped me develop my pitch for the IP Multimodal Memoir which included the theme, message, and significant moment of my memoir. I learned how to find an audience that aligned with the message I wanted to convey through my memoir. This learning demonstrates how to analyze relationships between medium, genre, purpose, audience, and context in appropriate genre models as stated in the course objectives for Writing 37. It also strengthened my critical reading and writing skills as it helped me develop my analytical skills and understand the important of audience in the application of the rhetorical triangle in writing. It is important to my learning in the writing class as it provided insight into the imitation process of a model publication and helped me understand how to differentiate between the information expected to be known by the audience and the information the rhetor should provide to the audience. The mastery of this skill is important to my ethos as analyzing the audience helps me to formulate the message to a target audience and therefore conveys the message effectively.

The Rhetorical Triangle