Audience Profile.For each communication task below, write brief answers to the following three questions:

1. Who is my audience?
2. What is my audience's general attitude toward my subject?
3. What does my audience need to know?

Communication Tasks

1. A final notice collection letter from an appliance manufacturer to an appliance dealer sent 10 days before initiation of legal collection procedures.

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1. A promotional message on your company's retailing website, announcing a temporary price reduction on high-definition television sets.

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1. An advertisement for peanut butter.

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1. A letter to the property management company responsible for maintaining your office building complaining about persistent problems with the heating and air conditioning.

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1. A cover letter sent along with your resume to a potential employer.

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1. A request (to the seller) for a price adjustment on a piano that incurred $150 in damages during delivery to a banquet room in the hotel you manage.

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