 Coney : “Think about your audience†reminded me of some work I saw, read, and used during an advanced comp class. I think I’ll print and attach a copy of some questions about voice. I think a similarly exhausting, if not exhaustive, list of questions about audience would be useful to define our assumptions about audience.
           I liked the taxonomy of readers, although I don’t think I would have had I not already been exposed to the idea. Not sure why.
           reader as receiver of information
           reader as user
           reader as decoder
           reader as professional colleague– social constructions community creating meaning? If so, how different from below?
           reader as maker of meaning
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Coney, M.B.  “Technical readers and their rhetorical roles.”  Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions 35.2 (June 1992): 58-63.