Defining Objectives
Overall Purpose
- What are you writing? – Robotics.
- What prompts you to write? – Interest in how they work.
- What outcome do you desire? – To gain knowledge in robotic assembly/design and the ability to create new designs.
Reader Profile
- Who is your primary reader? – Graduation Project Teachers (writing/technical)
- What is your reader’s relationship to you? - Teacher
- What are your readers job title and responsibilities? – To accurately asses my skills in presentation/writing and
technical ability.
- Who else might read your communication? – Family/friends/employers/co-workers/future Heald Graduates.
- How familiar is your reader with your communication? – English teacher specializes with presentation and
writing/Technical teacher specializes with technical part
- How familiar is your reader with your specialty? – My technical teacher should be knowledgeable about my assembly
and electronics, my English teacher will be able to understand my content.
- Dose your reader have any communication preferences you should take into account? - Yes
- Should you take into account any other things about your reader when writing? - Yes
Situational Analysis
- What events and circumstances influence the way you should write? – The way my teachers want the content to be
displayed and communicated.
Reader’s Informational Needs
- What are the key questions your reader will ask while reading?
What is a Robot?
Why do we need/want Robots?
How they work individually/together?
Where do you begin?
- How will your reader search for the answers? (The reader may use more than one strategy.)
___X_ Sequential reading from beginning to end
___X_ Selective reading, as when using a reference book (what key terms will your reader look for?
_____ Other (explain)
- How will your reader use the information you provided?
_____ Compare point by point (what will be the points of comparison?
___X_ Attempt to determine how the information you provide will
affect him or her
_____ Attempt to determine how the information you provide will
affect his or her organization
___X_ Follow instructions step by step
___X_ Other (explain) - gain knowledge on Robotics
Reader’s Attitudes
- What is your reader’s attitudes toward your subject? Unknown.
- Why? – Not graduated yet.
- What do you want it to be? – Great.
- What is your reader’s attitude towards you? - Good I think.
- Why? – I am a good person.
- What do you want it to be? – Great.
Stakeholders
- Who, besides your readers, are stakeholders in your communication? - Family/friends/employers/co-workers/future Heald
Graduates
- How will they be affected by it? – Good hopefully.