Remixing helps students learn these concepts because they create a text with these elements in the forefront of their mind. Unlike the traditional essay, which instructors may ask them to consider audience, the audience for a traditional essay is often the same for each essay: the academic community, specifically, that professor. Although we may ask them to consider different audiences when composing, the students ultimately think about the professor that will be grading and judging their essay solely based on content. With remixing, however, students are able to write to any audience of their choosing and may create a work that would actually be seen by that audience. Therefore, it becomes of the utmost importance to instruct students about audience before and during their remixing process. These key concepts include audience/author awareness, how the medium affects the audience, and audience as a part of the rhetorical situation.

Audience affects how and what the author does with their content. Both the audience and author make meaning from the text, but FYC students often do not consider this notion. Remixing brings audience awareness to the forefront of students' consideration when composing their remixed texts. Students will need to consider audience more than they have in their traditional essays because they are often told who the audience is for these essays: the academic community. With remixing, however, the variety of medium and the intention of their project greatly changes the audiences to which they are writing.

Furthermore, remixing is a prime assignment to introduce students to the concept of medium affecting the audience and vice versa. If students are targeting an audience of young video game players, they should choose a medium that their audience is most likely to interact with. These may include online forums, youtube videos, or social media. Similarly, the medium affects the audience. If a student chose to create a children's book, they have limited their audience to children that have access to books and/or adults that interact with young children often, like parents or elementary school teachers. When completing a remixing project, students must consider the argument that they want to make and their target audience before they can choose the medium for the project.

Encompassing both medium and audience awareness, remixing projects allow for students to create intentional, rhetorical choices for the content of their project. These rhetorical choices are made with the intended audience in mind. Students, then, must be informed about the rhetorical situation. Audience changes both the medium and the content within the project. Remixing projects gives students the potential to move beyond the classroom and identify other audiences. Remixing forces students to not only think about their content, but also the context in which their content is situated. Students are given the opportunity to create content through the traditional essay, but they are not aware of how the context of the traditional essay appeals to a specific audience. Students will be better equipped to make decisions about their audience and the medium once they are informed about the rhetorical situation.