AppendixExercise Answers
CHAPTER 2
Test Yourself: Who Is the Audience?
1. Audience: Electronics engineers at radar-equipped airfields. These readers are assumed to have highly technical knowledge of the topic.
2. Audience: Airport manager. This reader has a general but not highly technical understanding of the topic.
3. Audience: Chamber of Commerce members. This audience is assumed to have the least knowledge of the topic. This version is most easily understood and appeals to the general reader.
Test Yourself: Selecting the Purpose and Sequence
Read the following paragraphs. Select the paragraph that states the purpose. Put a “1” next to ...
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