For synthesis essay I imagined the school board being the reader of my essay. I did not think of a general audience, since a general audience does not have the power to implement such a thing. I ultimately wanted them to respond by agreeing to what I had to say, but if they were willing to at lease look at what I had to say, and consider the pros and cons, I thought that would be substantial. I cannot really expect the readers of my essay to up and change the schooling system overnight, so having them actually think it over would be ok with me, and what I was trying to accomplish. This essay required a bit more formality than that of one writing to the general audience. I am presenting this to a school board type of audience, and having logic about my topic would really boost my credibility. I have passionate tone to my paper because I want those whom would read it to know that I deeply care about this issue. I feel this is appropriate in order to gain the sympathy of my audience so that they will want to really listen to what I have to stay, instead of just hearing it. I organized the synthesis paper in order of credibility, but not from strongest to weakest, but I put the shaky credibility first, the weak credibility second, and the strongest of credibility third. This way, the audience would not end my paper by reading the least credible source, but would end with the strongest source. My logic for this was that if I could draw the attention of my readers with some good, but not great information, show them bad information from the other side, and then have it countered by a man with a masters degree in that specific field it would create the most effective result.
My research paper was geared more towards a liberal, and younger crowd. Many older conservatives would not want to hear what I have to say about taxing churches, and I knew this before I started the paper. It is also geared toward the legislatures of the United States, but it is more of a documentary style research paper where slang is often used to get a point across, for example “ the Feds (Federal Government) would be on that individual like stank on shit” is something a younger more hip audience would be able to relate to, than old clichés like white on rice. I wanted this to be something that would catch the attention of legislatures, with younger audiences spreading the word around. It is to be sort of akin as to what the Zeitgeist movie did. The tone in this paper is a little more informal than that of my synthesis paper, but still has a level of formality to appease the average legislature, since many of them are starting to become more “hip” in order to gain the support of younger audiences like myself. The organization of this essay was the history of taxes, the current state of taxes and the religious institutions, what needs to be changed, and the arguments for and against taxing religious institutions. I did it like this, because I thought it was the best way to help give the audience the full spectrum of the issue, so that it was not seen as just a one sided battle all the time.