1. MOVING FROM WRITER-BASED PROSE TO READER-BASED PROSE IN COLLEGE COMPOSITION I Building Awareness of Audience

2. MetroCITI Year-long seminar Twelve fellows selected from high-diversity colleges in New York metro area. Design & implement “pedagogical project”

3. The Challenge: “Who Are You Writing For?”

4. The Plan In-Class Mini-Lesson Redesign Essay Assignments Utilize Peer Review Process

5. Mini-Lesson In 3 minutes, list all the different kinds of writing you’ve done. In 3 minutes, list all the different people you’ve ever written to. Build list on board. Discussion: How does the way you write change based on who you’re writing to? Activity requires students to pull an audience from a “hat” to write a group letter convincing someone to lend them $20.

6. Sample Assignment

7. Sample Peer Review

8. Challenges Not all essays present an obvious audience. Students are more skilled in writing to some audiences than others. Artificiality of assignments: Students still know they’re writing for me, for a grade. What happens when they get to their next class and their professor does not specify an audience?

9. Next Semester Introduce concept of audience on first day of class. Implement more in-class activities that require writing to a variety of different audiences. Revise (some) assignments to create a more specific audience. Create an actual audience – Class blog? Class literary journal? Create at least one assignment that does not explicitly identify an audience.