D#3, HW#5, Audience

My ideal audience for right now would be average American citizens. These are people who have grown up in America and have seen poverty weekly on the streets. Their education ranges from some high school to college graduates. Other than giving a bum loose change every once in a while, they do not go out of their way to aid people in poverty. This audience is likely to have mixed feelings about the issues on poverty. Some care and feel sad when they see a family struggling with poverty, and some do not. The purpose of this audience reading my research paper is that some of them might understand the issue more and feel inclined to do something about it. After reading my research paper, I’d like for this audience to start making changes in themselves and in others by aiding people in poverty. This audience probably does not know facts or statistics about this issue, but they know that it does exist. Some people in this audience would like to know more, and some do not. Although some of them do not want to know, I feel like they need to know what is going on outside of their own home and comfort zone. They need to know that there are citizens out there were once like themselves who are now suffering from poverty.