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What should you put in your author's note?

Dear Reader,

My working thesis for this project was:

Format/Organization -

• relate to thesis
• mean/effect on the audience (desired effect) 

Audience - 

• Name audience (and why they care)
• format addresses/reaches YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE. 
• language, tone, sentence length, paragraph size 
• support - aimed at audience (why not)
• CITE

Support 

• Authoritative source 
• Drs/scholars
• case studies
• Popular
• articles (magazines, newspapers)
• blogs (personal accounts) 

Rhetorical Situation: how you persuade

• emotion, logic, authority (cultural, scholarly...)
• images
• language

Sincerely, 

ME