Audience, Tone, and Sentence Craft · ⁨กลุ่มผู้ฟัง น้ำเสียง และการประพันธ์ประโยค⁩

Enduring Understanding (RHS-1): Individuals write within a particular situation and make strategic writing choices based on that situation.

Learning Objective 1.B: Reading – Explain how an argument demonstrates understanding of an audience’s beliefs, values, or needs.

• RHS-1.K Writers may make comparisons (e.g., similes, metaphors, analogies, or anecdotes) in an attempt to relate to an audience. Effective comparisons must be shared and understood by the audience to advance the writer’s purpose.
• RHS-1.L Writers’ choices regarding syntax and diction influence how the writer is perceived by an audience and may influence the degree to which an audience accepts an argument.
• RHS-1.M Word choice may reflect writers’ biases and may affect their credibility with a particular audience.
• RHS-1.N Because audiences are unique and dynamic, writers must consider the perspectives, contexts, and needs of the intended audience when making choices of evidence, organization, and language in an argument.

Enduring Understanding (RHS-1): Individuals write within a particular situation and make strategic writing choices based on that situation.

Learning Objective 2.B: Writing – Demonstrate an understanding of an audience’s beliefs, values, or needs.

• RHS-1.K Writers may make comparisons (e.g., similes, metaphors, analogies, or anecdotes) in an attempt to relate to an audience. Effective comparisons must be shared and understood by the audience to advance the writer’s purpose.
• RHS-1.L Writers’ choices regarding syntax and diction influence how the writer is perceived by an audience and may influence the degree to which an audience accepts an argument.
• RHS-1.M Word choice may reflect writers’ biases and may affect their credibility with a particular audience.
• RHS-1.N Because audiences are unique and dynamic, writers must consider the perspectives, contexts, and needs of the intended audience when making choices of evidence, organization, and language in an argument.

Enduring Understanding (STL-1): The rhetorical situation informs the strategic stylistic choices that writers make.

Learning Objective 7.A: Reading – Explain how word choice, comparisons, and syntax contribute to the specific tone or style of a text.

• STL-1.Q A writer’s style is made up of the mix of word choice, syntax, and conventions employed by that writer.
• STL-1.R Writers may signal a complex or ironic perspective through stylistic choices. Irony may emerge from the differences between an argument and the readers’ expectations or values.

Enduring Understanding (STL-1): The rhetorical situation informs the strategic stylistic choices that writers make.

Learning Objective 8.A: Writing – Strategically use words, comparisons, and syntax to convey a specific tone or style in an argument.

• STL-1.Q A writer’s style is made up of the mix of word choice, syntax, and conventions employed by that writer.
• STL-1.R Writers may signal a complex or ironic perspective through stylistic choices. Irony may emerge from the differences between an argument and the readers’ expectations or values.

Enduring Understanding (STL-1): The rhetorical situation informs the strategic stylistic choices that writers make.

Learning Objective 7.B: Reading – Explain how writers create, combine, and place independent and dependent clauses to show relationships between and among ideas.

• STL-1.S Modifiers—including words, phrases, or clauses—qualify, clarify, or specify information about the thing with which they are associated. To reduce ambiguity, modifiers should be placed closest to the word, phrase, or clause that they are meant to modify.
• STL-1.T Parenthetical elements—though not essential to understanding what they are describing—interrupt sentences to provide additional information that may address an audience’s needs and/or advance a writer’s purpose.

Enduring Understanding (STL-1): The rhetorical situation informs the strategic stylistic choices that writers make.

Learning Objective 8.B: Writing – Write sentences that clearly convey ideas and arguments.

• STL-1.S Modifiers—including words, phrases, or clauses—qualify, clarify, or specify information about the thing with which they are associated. To reduce ambiguity, modifiers should be placed closest to the word, phrase, or clause that they are meant to modify.
• STL-1.T Parenthetical elements—though not essential to understanding what they are describing—interrupt sentences to provide additional information that may address an audience’s needs and/or advance a writer’s purpose.