Analyzing My Audience

In this post I will be answering the questions posed on on pg. 41 of Student's Guide Reading. I will be answering them based on the article "Sound Check" written by John Schwartz and published in The New York Times.

Who am I writing for? What are the audience's beliefs and assumptions?
For the purpose of this project we have been assigned to write for incoming freshmen that are also in our major/field. My major is Creative Writing so that's what I will be writing about. I assume that the audience's beliefs are that they believe in the value of the Creative Writing degree and the art of writing itself.

What position might they take on this issue? How will I need to respond to this position?
It depends how they feel about the development of audiobooks and e-books in order to please the modern consumer. Some may believe that reading should take place purely in the written form and should not be animated through audiobooks because it takes away from the imagination developed by the reader. John Schwartz seems to take the side of the audiobooks so I will need to provide enough evidence to support that.

What will they want to know?
I believe they will want to know how audiobooks have changed not only reading but the act of storytelling itself. Obviously the twenty-first century and the rise of technology has brought a lot of changes.

How might they react to my argument?
Some people may not like audiobooks and completely disagree with them. As such they might not agree with my author's comments about audiobooks.

How am I trying to relate to or connect with my audience?
I am trying to connect with them by way of my major as we all have the same field. I will need to convince them that audiobooks are of value and not taking away from the art of writing.

Are there specific words, ideas, or modes of presentation that will help me relate to them in this way?
Maybe reinforcing the idea that audiobooks are still, generally, books even if they are not in the written form.

Escamilla, Alejandro. "Left-handed writing with wristwatch." 07/09/14 via Wikipedia. Creative Commons License.

EDIT:

For this reflection I read the blog posts of Andrea and Isaac. We all had pretty similar ideas and answers to the questions that were posed in this post. I also noticed that we were all already heavily in favor of one side. I think this will be fine as long as we avoid typical pitfalls and present all of our information adequately. I will have to see how everything goes I guess.