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Audience Observations Activity
Complete this activity using the smartphone image you selected from the Interactive Smartphone
Observations activity.
Consider the following questions as you analyze your selected image:
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—hat inferences can you make about the owner based on the home screen or apps on the
smartphone?
Can you make any assumptions by observing the type of smartphone and its condition?
What might the smartphone reveal about the owner, such as their health, values, age, or wealth?
What are you first reactions?
Complete the questions below using the corresponding instructions.
1. Use the table below to list 3 to 5 observations about your selected smartphone. For each
observation, provide 1 inference about the smartphoneàowner (audience).
Provide a smartphone observation.
Example
Lots of unread messages
Provide an inference about the
smartphoneàowner (audience).
Maybe this person is very busy or
very irresponsible?
Observation 1
Observation 2
Observation 3
Observation 4
Observation 5
2. Assume you were able to determine the smartphone owneràemail address. Consider what you
observed about the smartphone and what you believe are characteristics of its potential owner.
Consider how what you learned about the owner might affect your word choices or sentence
structure when writing to that person. Based on those considerations, draft a message to the
owner offering to return the smartphone.
Enter your response here.
3. In a few sentences, identify which of your observations impacted the note you wrote to the
smartphone’s owner. Provide how your knowledge of your audience affected your choices as an
author.
Enter your response here.

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