Question

A good writer anticipates the audience of a message. Although you can’t always know exactly who the audience is, you can imagine the general characteristics of the receiver. Profiling your audience allows you to adopt the appropriate tone, language, and channel. Which of the following are appropriate questions to ask when profiling your audience? Check all that apply. What is my relationship with the audience? Do I care about my audience’s response? Should I expect a neutral, positive, or negative response to my message? What position does the audience hold in my organization? How must I reshape my message to make it understandable and acceptable to others to whom it might be forwarded?

Answer 1

Answer:

All options are correct.

Explanation:

A good writer, especially a business writer, should try to anticipate as much as possible in terms of audience so that what they write is truly effective. By "predicting" who will be reading their work and caring about how they might react to it, writers are able to choose their tone, language, and channel appropriately. Thus, they must ask themselves who will be reading their piece, what the audience's reaction will probably be, whom will the message be forwarded to etc. To do so, some questions are helpful even if it is impossible to predict precisely. The intention is to anticipate as much as possible:

Who is my primary reader or listener?

Who might see or hear this message in addition to the primary audience?

What are my personal and professional relationships with that person?

What position does the person hold in the organization?

Do I need to include more background information?

How much does that person know about the subject?

How must I reshape my message to make it understandable and acceptable to others to whom it might be forwarded?

What do I know about that person’s education, beliefs, culture, and attitudes?

Should I expect a neutral response to my message?

Answer 2

Answer:

All are correct.

Explanation:

As per the question, all the given options display appropriate questions that are required to be considered while profiling the audience as they all offer significant points to be kept in mind during the process of outlining the audience. The speaker's relationship or previous experience with the audience, speaker's concern towards the audience's response and the type of response they offer to his/her message, the position of audience according the organizational structure of the text, and reshaping or modification of ideas  according to the needs, knowledge, and understanding ability of the audience all exemplify the important points to outline the audience constructively and create the desired impact on them. Thus, 'all the options' are correct.