For my final project I will be creating a research paper that tackles the question: How common is bias in education, and does it have an effect on students learning outcomes? To do this effectively I am using sources that are vary from citations of books, journal entries (mostly from psychology related publications and education journals, and also trade journals that use the perspective of educators that are active in their profession). My goal is to help show the reader that while they may aware of racial, cultural, gender biases, to peel back the curtain and show them just how widespread this sort of behavior is.
My targeted audience consists of two main groups of people: The first would be educators and school administrators. The second would be university students (just like this class), people who are taking a course in diversity and inclusion studies. I would like this to be part of the canon of a course like this so that students can read this and want to go further with it and develop their own questions and answers about issues in diversity in education, and how it effects different populations of people.
You’ve identified 2 rather divergent audiences that would likely have very different sets of expectations for a text. That can make it pretty challenging to write. If, on the one hand, you’re interested in providing material that current educators can use, the focus would likely be on practical and immediately applicable information. if, on the other hand, you were writing for people studying this topic for the first time, you’d probably need to provide more theory by way of background. The types of texts the 2 groups would be comfortable reading would also be rather different.
I would suggest thinking some more about your desired purpose–what you hope to accomplish–so that you can best align that with the appropriate audience and then determine a format that will work well for all of those considerations. If you’d like to talk more about this, please let me know.