Entry 29:
Research + Reflection
Topic: What are considerations in building common ground through writing?
In order to find common ground in your writing, think about who your audience is. You already know who your target audience is when you start writing- if you do not know you may be in trouble as this is essential to being a good writer. Your audience is any one that you are trying to explain or talk to, for my research paper - my audience is young people and maybe parents who have young children.
Trying to find any common ground may seem hard, but you can do a variety of things. The link I found and am currently using is less writing and more of an in person visual thing but the concepts still apply to writing. When you start writing, write a list of questions that you think your audience would be able to appeal to, sometimes writers use questions to get people interested in what they are reading- a hook. Finding answers to your questions may be hard to do in writing, but your research should be able to help you establish your points and if you do a survey that could definitely help as well. You can also identify any false assumptions about what you will be talking about. Another thing, is to connect to your audience. Again probably a bit harder to do in your writing- but also people typically don't read past the first paragraph if they aren't truly interested- even if it is only a little bit. Maybe tell a story about your own experience so that people feel like they can connect with you.
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