This week, it's time to really begin to develop our ideas for our public audience project. We'll start by really thinking about the rhetorical situation of our message so that we can make informed decisions about the audience, genre, medium, and how we present ourselves as authors.

"Public Writing for Social Change" by Ashley J. Holmes is our reading assignment for this week. In this essay, Holmes outlines how to find the intersection between who we are as citizens and who we are as scholars. She challenges us to think about the ways to connect what we learn in the academic sphere with social issues that affect our everyday lives. 

Holmes also gives us step-by-step instructions for thinking about this, which is what our writing assignment this week is based on. For your assignment this week, you will outline your public audience project in detail, giving us the full rhetorical situation. You'll think about your purpose, research your audience, choose your genre, and think about how to "go public."