Objective: To help you step back from your own interest in the question/problem you are exploring and analyze the stakeholders and genre sets that they use. You'll write about some rhetorical analysis skills and also become better prepared to decide how to create your final project. Tasks that may help you prepare: First, brainstorm some of the discourse communities that may be the most interested in your research question or problem. (For example, if you researched plagiarism at college, the following people might care about your issue: fellow students, college deans,department chairs, etc.) Choose 2 of these groups of stakeholders to focus on as a possible audiences for your final project. Second, determine the genre sets used by these stakeholders. (For example, if you choose deans, you'll need to discover and determine what sorts of texts deans read and write on a regular basis, and where they get their information on plagiarism).

Part One: Stakeholder Analysis: Write a 1-page analysis that outlines all of the possible stakeholders for your project and then conduct a more focused analysis of your discourse communities you are considering for your project. Who are these people? Why are they stakeholders? What can they do in response to your findings/proposals/concerns? Part Two: Genre Analysis: Write a 2-page analysis in which you do two things: 1. Identify the genre sets used by the groups you have identified in part one. What do these groupsread and write on a regular basis? Where do they get their information? What information do they find convincing when making decisions? 2. Determine which genre would be most suitable for you to use when communicating your research to these groups and explain why. Then, analyze these genre sets: what do they look like? How are they organized? What information do they include? How are the sources cited? 3. Close with an answer. You may need to conduct interviews and collect samples of unfamiliar texts in order to complete the analysis. By the end of the stakeholder and genre analysis, you should have determined your audience and your genre, considered how to reach them, and know how to write the text you need to write in order to reach them. Audience: You are writing this for yourself and for me. This is a process of determining how you will present your findings and what significance they have for your message. Evaluation: The primary ability you need to demonstrate is analysis. Can you and have you carefully analyzed the potential stakeholder and genres, and then completed a careful textual analysis of your stakeholders and genres? Are your findings supported with evidence? There are many parts to this analysis, so figuring out to organize (suggestion: use subheadings) the text will also be central to the text—and don't forget to cite any sources you use in your text, including those interviews. Formatting note: Your paper should be one document, split into two parts. It's best to use subheadings or new titles because it creates an organized, cohesive text. You do not need a works cited page or bibliography for this project as it is discourse community-focused and not focused on sources.