Blog Post # 4: Slate.com

For this week's blog post you need to go to slate.com, a great news & lifestyle website, and choose an article. You can pick any article in any section. After you have chosen which article you want to focus on, I'd like you to read through it carefully while keeping both voice and audience in mind.

Finally, once you are done reading, come back to the discussion board and tell us a couple of things. Tell us which article you read and who the author is. Next, tell us about the voice. Did it seem casual? Scholarly? What were some words or phrases that really stood out to you as quirky? Out of place? What was the tone of the article? Sarcastic? Witty? Somber? Now, talk a little about audience. Who do you think was the intended reader? Was it for a younger audience? Older? Educated? Uninformed? What clues in the article let you know who the target audience was?

Write 250 words in response to the above questions.

Due next Friday.