BP7

While thinking about the prompt and finding a personal value to put on audiences and how they in effect determine how I approach my writing I have found that the audience means everything. The audience addressed will dictate what vocabulary is used and even the style information is presented. For instance here is a very, very generalized and stereotypical thought writers (I am guilty of this accusation.) have when constructing materials to be presented; a younger person will not understand a very diversified vocabulary so use the same 400 words and create numerous, simple sentences about the dog finding a bone. Also most assume that a mature adult will understand the top 100 unused words in the dictionary and write on the chemical reaction of light, CO2 and H2O in a multi-cell organism. In addition to how material should be composed the audience also defines in what media it should be presented. Traditionally entertainment for children comes in medium of picture books or cartoons and adults acquire information through a "good" book with maybe no illustration or perhaps through the news. Notice how the structure of each "venue" is different, this why the audience means so much. How a concept is delivered solely depends on the receiver of the information. This is also present in my writing just as Toby Fulwiler suggests, when I write an essay or paper to be turned in I focus mainly on it's appearance and how it will be accepted by my teachers because just as Fulwiler said, they're probably an expert on the subject so hey I wanna sound good! Although I haven't felt that way this year, I felt really free in my writing these last two papers. I mean it hasn't been a cakewalk but I also don't feel I'm trying to please anyone beyond what I am capable of at this point in my writing career. Ya know what I mean? I dunno, I think I'm just babbling. A nap may be in order for today. =]

Later,

R