Monday, October 27, 2008
Blog Post 7
I never really gave much thought into audience until I read Toby's article. It is very true, your audience believe it or not can change how you write, the language and words that you use and even the tone of your paper. For example when writing for a teacher, I tend to write formally and try to make it as advanced as possible while still trying to make it sound like me. I have also found that through the years, my writing for teachers has never been good enough. On the other hand in the 11th grade we had to write a children's book and I aced it. The simple use of easy to understand words along with handcrafted images, it was right down my alley. When Fulwiler said to "consider yourself the audience", he made a valid point. Put yourself in the shoes of whoever is intended to read it. Also, an audience that I never thought of that Fulwiler mentioned, was yourself. I never would have thought of writing for myself, I have always imagined writing for others. I especially enjoyed the steps on how to write for teachers, he gave some very useful tips. My favorite one would have to be #5 which is what I get caught up in all of the time, useing a different "slant". By reading this article, it gave me a better insight on how I can improve and approach future papers.
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Response to Keesha:
I agree with you that before Fulwiler's reading, i'd never thought of using myself as an audience. Alot of times, i look back at past writing assignments of mine, and im like "what the heck is this, what am i doing." Usually i think my past papers are terrible, but at the time of writing them i thought they were decent. But, i never considered myself as a part of the audience, only my teachers grading my writing assignments. Now, i feel sorry for them. I think there's only one problem with considering youself as part of the audience. You cant let that idea get too big, cause if you do them you'll see why you liked the paper you wrote, by you wont see why others, like teachers or classmates didn't like your paper so much. I think a writer needs to consider the other audiences, not themselves, as the main audience.
Keesha,
I think that you should probably have focused on your audience a little more in writing throughout the years. Audiences are as important as the writing, whether it be for the teacher or for someone else. You wouldn't write a letter to your boyfriend the same as you would write to your teacher. I definitely got some good tips from the reading too. I remember being told by past teachers that I should do something new. It used to drive me nuts. But overall I think that your view on the role of audience is similar to mine. I understand the importance of audience even better now and also learned that I myself are my own audience.
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