Write a paper in which you examine how the works of one of the following writers: Columbus (First Voyage), Bradford (Of Plymouth
plantation) or Franklin****(autobiography of Benjamin franklin), seems to have been shaped by the author’s awareness of audience. In
this paper, you think about what sort of people, or persons, the text seems to address and then show how the author designed the text
to appeal to them. To whom was Columbus writing in his journal? How can you tell? What difference does it seem to have made to his
authorial choices? What does he put it the work and what does he leave out because, it would seem, of his awareness fo his audience?
How might we answer all these same questions for Bradstreet or Franklin? Are they writing to an audience of men? Women? Rich people?
Aristocrats? Commoners? What are the signs in their text, or where do we see what we might call the pressures of a specific audience?
How specific can we be about this audience?
Again, these are all just questions to get you thinking about the thesis you might develop; I do not intend for you to answer all of
them. Rather I want you to think long and deep about how the pressure of a specific audience appears to be reflected in the writer’s
work. Again, this needs to be a focused, argument-driven, five page essay. You need to know precisely what your paper is arguing in
order to write this well.
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