This exercise asks you to apply what you learned in the textbook chapters by analyzing public documents for purpose and audience. You also will compare your analyses to identify how specific choices in content and design target different the works’ different goals.
Select either the website pair or video pair:
Genetically Modified Organisms
Fracking
Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)
Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) (Links to an external site.
How does fracking work?
How does fracking work? – Mia Nacamulli (Links to an external site.)
Pick one of these pairs of works about a common subject. Analyze each work and compare it to the other using the following guiding questions:
For each work, analyze purpose:
For each work, analyze audience:
Compare the two analyses:
Submit your answers in a Word document. (If you used Google docs, select Download > Word Document from the File menu to download your work as a .docx file, and then submit that.)