Analyzing My Audience

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Project 2 is sort of complicated because the essay has a "meta-" aspect to it. I am not writing a rhetorical analysis, I am explaining an example argument, and my audience therefore must reflect this. My audience for this purpose is in many ways imaginary.

• I am writing for students that don't understand how to construct an argument in my field of Neuroscience. It can be assumed that my audience is pretty unaware of my text's argument, so their beliefs may go against the argument and against the way the argument is constructed.
• My audience may be confused about the construction, in which case I will have to make sure I go very far in depth in my explanations.
• My audience will want to know the organization pattern used by the author, what a successful thesis statement looks like in this type of argument, what types of rhetorical strategies are most important in this type of argument, etc.
• It is possible that my audience could find my explanations too general, or too hard to grasp, so I will attempt to keep this in mind while explaining the strategies used.
• I am trying to relate with my audience by showing that I too once did not understand how to construct an argument in my field, in order to make them feel like they are not alone in their confusion.
• In order to relate in such a way, I can refer to how "complex" the style is, to explain that I recognize it as not immediately easy to understand. 

Reflection: I looked at Jenny and Rachel's "Analyzing My Audience" posts. I found their answers to these questions vaguely similar to mine (although better sounding), as I think we all agree that our audience is people in our fields that don't understand how to write proper arguments, but we all have very different answers to these questions. I am looking at this essay in terms of my only argument to my audience being the effectiveness of this article, and I'm still unsure if this is correct or not.