What is a persona? What do personas represent?

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An interview about personas in technical writing Your first writing assignment will be to write three personas. This discussion topic is designed to help you become familiar with what a persona is and what its role is in technical writing. Please access the following url and listen to the podcast, “Dr. Kirk St. Amant and Dr. Guiseppe Getto on User Personas and Intercultural Communication.” 10-Minute Tech Comm – Dr. Kirk St. Amant and Dr. Guiseppe Getto on User Personas and Intercultural Communication on Stitcher Please answer the following questions. Your answers can be a couple of sentences or so. 1. What is a persona? What do personas represent? 2. How does a writer make a persona that is accurate, useful, and representative and that does not simply stereotype a population? 3. What is the difference between audience and persona? 4. Why is user behavior important for personas? PS//Writing Assignment #1 Criteria The three personas feature a summary, including the persona’s name, occupation or job location, and age. The three personas feature the goals for each persona–why the persona would want to accomplish the task. The three personas show appropriate pain points or unique situations that each persona might face in following the instructions. Language must have only minor grammar/readability problems