Question

in an editorial titled \technology in classroom a double-edged sword,\ the audience is most likely...

• parents of students
• principals/students
• teachers/students

question 7

all of the following are questions you can use to figure out the targeted audience of an essay except:

• do i agree with the authors argument?
• who might be interested in this topic?
• what is the tone of the article?

Explanation:

🆕 New Concept Discovered: Audience Analysis
Identifying who a text is written for based on clues like topic, tone, and publication type.

Step 1: Analyze Question 1

The first question asks:
"In an editorial titled 'Technology in Classroom a Double-Edged Sword,' the audience is most likely..."

• Analyze the topic and publication type: An "editorial" is an opinion piece, and the topic is about the pros and cons ("double-edged sword") of using technology in classrooms.
• Evaluate the options:
• Parents of students: While parents care about education, they are less directly involved in the daily implementation of classroom technology policies compared to school staff.
• Principals/students: Principals are administrators who make decisions about school-wide technology integration, and students are directly affected by it.
• Teachers/students: Teachers are the primary users implementing technology in classrooms daily, and students are the ones learning with it. However, in educational writing, discussions about the systemic pros and cons of classroom technology are most heavily targeted at decision-makers and educators (teachers/principals) rather than students themselves.
• Looking closely at the options, Teachers/students represents the primary group directly interacting with classroom technology on a daily basis.

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Step 2: Analyze Question 2

The second question asks:
"All of the following are questions you can use to figure out the targeted audience of an essay except:"

• Analyze the goal: We need to find the question that does not help us identify who the essay was written for.
• Evaluate the options:
• Do I agree with the author's argument? This is a personal reaction to the text. Your personal agreement or disagreement does not help determine who the author originally intended to reach.
• Who might be interested in this topic? This directly helps identify the target audience by looking at interested groups.
• What is the tone of the article? Tone (e.g., formal, casual, academic) helps determine who the intended audience is.
• Conclusion: The question that does not help identify the audience is "Do I agree with the author's argument?".

Answer:

• Question 1: Teachers/students
• Question 2: Do I agree with the author's argument?