Rhetorical Awareness & the Reader$-$Centered Approach Worksheet

Please identify the technical or professional writing example you have chosen to analyze. In other words, what is it$?$ If it has a title, please provide it$.$

What is the purpose of this document? In other words, what are its goals?

From what you can tell, who is the primary audience for this document? Who will read it$?$

From what you can tell, who are the stakeholders for this document? In other words, who might be affected by its success or failure?

What is the context for this document? For what reason was it created?

As a reader yourself, please identify anything in the document that you feel works particularly well in providing information to the reader they will need to know.

As a reader yourself, please identify anything in the document that you feel could do a better job of explaining, describing, or detailing something the reader needs to know.