The research question is: What is the history of “hot products” and what are the characteristics of each that has made them so popular? Can you predict a “hit”?
The purpose is to research and analyze past successful products and note trends in these products.
The audience is consumer goods manufacturers/product developers.
I want the latest and greatest thing. From cars and phones to laptops and games. I want it all, the coolest new thing. So I bring my interest in these products to this paper. But I also bring my past behavior—I want to understand why I want these things so badly.
Well, the audience, those product developers, want to know why people like me will stand in line for the newest video games, so we are related that way. They want to know how to appeal to the trend-setters. But I also bring a bias to the question because I view these products in a positive way, whereas others, who may shun technology or consumerism in general, would look at this question in a more negative way. So the writer (me) and the audience are actually both interested in this topic in a positive way. By that I mean that I’m not presenting something that they don’t agree with, or I’m not trying to convince them on a controversial topic. Instead, I’m presenting a topic that they’re interested in and that could help them.
Like Amanda, I had a hard time understanding the difference between the audiences in WP#1and WP#3. WP#1 said that the goal of this assignment is to focus on “the specific audience that you will address in your final research paper and to determine the purpose of addressing your argument to that audience”. WP#3 says to “direct your response to this assignment to a specific audience whose thinking you want to influence.” I’m unsure what the difference between these two is. I want to give these product developers a context in which they’ll make decisions about future products. I’m convincing them that there is a method or reason to their decisions. I think the audiences are the same.
3 comments:
how are you going to pick and choose which "hot" new products to research? It seems so broad.
I also struggled with the understanding of audiences between WP#1 and WP#3. My final conclusion was WP#1 audience are the classmates and the professor because we're trying to propose "how" our topic is debatable. The audience for WP#3 will be our final target audience, (the "why" we researched this topic) the persons we want to direct the paper towards to influence. Does this make sense?
I also meant to suggest perhaps doing a top 10 list for "hot" new products. Web-sites are always to "influence" buyers on what to buy, so several sites should have top products lists to purchase.
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