chapter 2- adapting your message to your audience
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Chapter 2- Adapting Your Message to Your AudienceTRANSCRIPT
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Adapting Your Message to Your
Audience
Chapter 3
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Identify Your Audiences
Gatekeeper
Primary
Secondary Auxiliary
Watchdog
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Analyze Your Audiences
Individuals
Group members
Demographics
Psychographics
Organization members
Culture
Discourse community
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Analyze Individuals
People you work closely with
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
preference test that shows 4 types Introvert-Extrovert
Sensing-Intuitive
Thinking-Feeling
Perceiving-Judging
ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ
ISTP ISFP INFP INTP
ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP
ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ
Whichtype are you?
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Analyze Group Members
Focus on common features
Map profile of group features
Demographic (quantity) featuresAge Education Income Race Sex
Psychographic (quality) features
Values Beliefs Goals Lifestyles
VALS (Values & Lifestyle) profile used
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Analyze Organization Members
Organizational culture set of values,
attitudes, and philosophies
Shows in myths, stories, heroes, & documents Shows in use of space, money, and power
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To Analyze Organization Culture, Ask
Is organization tall or flat?
How do people get ahead?
Is diversity or homogeneity valued? Is sociability important?
How formal are behavior, language,
and dress? What does the work space look like?
What are the organizations goals?
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To Analyze Discourse Community, Ask
What channels, formats and styles are
preferred for communication?
What do people talk about? What topics are not discussed?
What kind of evidence and how much
is needed to be convincing?
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Channels
Communication channels means by
which you convey your message
Channels vary by
Speed, accuracy, and cost
Number of messages carried
Number of people reached
Efficiency and goodwill
Choose channels based on the
audience, purpose, and situation
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Six Questions to Analyze Audiences
1. How will audience react at first?
Will they see message as important?
What is their experience with you?2. How much information do they need?
What do they already know?
Does their knowledge need to beupdated?
What do they need to know to appreciate
your points?
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Six Questions to Analyze Audiences,continued
3. What obstacles must you overcome?
Is audience opposed to your message?
Will it be easy to do as you ask?4. What positives can you emphasize?
What are benefits for audience?
What do you have in common with them? Experiences Interests Goals Values
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Six Questions to Analyze Audiences,continued
5. What does audience expect?
What writing style do they prefer?
Are there red flag words? How much detail does audience want?
Do they want direct or indirect structure?
Do they have expectations about length,
visuals, or footnotes?
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Six Questions to Analyze Audiences,continued
6.How will audience use document?
Under what physical conditions will they
use it?
What purpose will document serve?
Reference
Guide
Basis of lawsuit
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Audience Benefits
Advantages audience gets from
Using your services
Buying your products Following your policies
Adopting your ideas
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Audience Benefits, continued
In informative messages
Benefits = reasons to comply with
announced policies
In persuasive messages
Benefits = reasons to act
In negative messages Benefits not used
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Four Criteria for Audience Benefits
1. Adapt benefits to audience
2. Stress intrinsic and extrinsic ones
Intrinsic built in
Extrinsic added on
3. Use clear logic to prove and vivid
detail to explain4. Phrase benefits in you-attitude
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Three Ways to Identify &
Develop Audience Benefits1. Identify feelings, fears, and needs of
audience
2. Identify objective features of yourproduct or policy that could meet
needs
3. Show how audiences needs can bemet with those features
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Writing to Multiple Audiences
When not possible to meet everyones
needs, analyze gatekeepers and
primary audience to determine
Content and choice of details
Organization
Level of formality
Use of technical terms and theory