Audience Sheet
Game story
The purpose of this audience sheet is to help you imagine an audience who
would read your game story. Since you are not actually publishing your
game story, you'll need to imagine who your readers are, make assumptions
about them, and explain how these assumptions shape your actual writing
decisions.
1. Give the name of the newspaper you imagine your game story will be published in, e.g., for UWSP games, your paper will be the Stevens Point Journal. (Note: You should buy a print copy of your newspaper. Check to be sure it has a sports section. But you can also look at the online paper's sports section.) If you saw a high school game, you will use the paper from the local town or city.
2. Using key concepts concerning audience from TSGW, Ch 1--knowledge, values, beliefs, and
expectations--you should indicate the following;
**State two assumptions you are making about knowledge: what your readers know or don't know about the game and then indicate how you are using these assumptions to write your game story.
**State two assumptions you are making about values and/or beliefs: what values and/or beliefs your readers have that shape their view of the game and sports more generally and how you are using these assumptions to write your game story.
**State two expectations (e,g, tone? vocabulary?) you believe your readers have for your game story and explain how you are meeting these expectations in your game story.
Draft your audience sheet using a Word document--audience
sheet must be typed. Draft and revise your audience sheet as you write your scratch outline and
draft.