Aliyah is looking for similarities and differences in culture, language, age, education, organizational rank and status, attitudes, experience, motivations, biases, beliefs, and any other factors that might affect the success of her message. Which step in the audience analysis process is Aliyah working on? A. Gauging audience members' level of understanding B. Identifying her primary audience C. Determining audience composition D. Determining audience size and geographic distribution E. Understanding audience expectations and preferences

C. Determining audience composition

Explanation:

Before passing on a message to an audience, there are various steps that should be carried out, one of which involves determining the composition of the audience.

This has to do with finding out certain characteristics of the audience such as; culture, age, education, status, language among others.

This will help to properly structure the message so it fits the audience and can be understood by them.

The correct option is D,determining audience composition

Explanation:

In determining the makeup of a group of audience,special attention is paid to their demographic information which refers to the distinguishing characteristics exhibited by members of the audience.

Aliyah is seeking for these differences and similarities in order that meaningful conclusions can reached on the entire population of audience.

Option A, is obviously wrong,as the features  chosen were not entirely about level of education or understanding.

The task was not also has not nothing to do with size of the audience,since the size of the audience is by mere counting of numbers.

There was no clue regarding understanding of audience expectations let alone preferences.