The document provides tips for writing an audience and analysis paper, emphasizing the importance of identifying the audience and purpose of the article. It suggests using specific examples from the text to support these identifications, particularly in the context of resume writing for nurses. Additionally, it includes formatting guidelines for the paper layout.

1. Tips for Writing
the Audience
and Analysis
Paper

2. Be sure to identify both the audience and
purpose of the article.

3. Tell how you determined the audience and
purpose by using specific information from the
article.
“Resume Writing Tips” Critical Care Nurse February 2,
2007, pg 1-6
The audience for the article are nurses writing their
resumes.
“a CV . . . tends to be used more frequently by nurses with
advanced degrees and nurses in an academic setting” (1).

4. Explain how the quote from the article identifies the
audience or purpose.
This sentence shows that nurses are the audience
because it specifically identifies them. If the audience
were more general, no specific occupation would be
identified.

5. Don’t call attention to the fact you’re writing a
paper for an assignment.
I am writing this paper to…
This paper is about…
I will now show how this example…

6. Set your analysis up in paragraph form.
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Technical and Professional Writing
Audience and Analysis Paper
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Technical and Professional Writing
Audience and Analysis Paper
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7. Change the spacing between paragraphs to zero!!!!
1. Click the Page Layout tab at the top of the screen.
2. Under Spacing, change the drop-down box next to
After to 0.
Change
to zero.