Approaches to Audience: An Overview of the Major Perspectives

This a concise text covers the major approaches to audience, from treatments in classical rhetoric to those in current composition studies. It provides new and prospective teachers with practical information that they can use to approach the difficult question of audience more productively in the classroom.

Features include sample heuristics, sample assignments, discussion questions (within each chapter), questions for further consideration (at end of each chapter), and recommendations for further reading.