Revising Your Essay to Target Your Audience

The video tutorial teaches how to revise essays to effectively target and convince specific audiences. It highlights common mistakes writers make, such as failing to engage their audience, and provides a step-by-step guide to identifying the audience, creating strategies to convince them, and making necessary revisions. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of using relatable stories and evidence to engage the audience, using a school lunch essay as an example. The lesson concludes with a review of the steps to ensure the essay effectively reaches its intended audience.

What is the primary goal of an argumentative essay?

• To convince the audience

• To entertain the audience

• To inform the audience

• To describe a process

What is the first step in revising an essay for a target audience?

• Adding more evidence

• Creating a catchy title

• Identifying the audience

• Writing a conclusion

Who is identified as the most likely audience for the school lunch essay?

• Parents

• Fellow students

• Teachers

• School leaders

What is one method suggested to better convince fellow students in an essay?

• Using complex vocabulary

• Including relatable stories

• Writing in a formal tone

• Adding more statistics

Where might a relatable story best fit in an essay?

• At the beginning of the essay

• In the bibliography

• In the middle of the essay

• In the conclusion