Daily Message On Writing Well. First, read Chapter Five “The Audience” of On Writing Well. In Chapter Five of On Writing Well, William Zinsser addresses a principal topic in rhetoric: the audience. James Porter notes that audience has been "an important concern of Rhetoric since the fifth century B.C.E., and the injunction to 'consider audience' is one of the oldest and most common suggestions to writers and speakers.”…
Identifying Audience. Why is identifying audience important in the writing and editing processes? At what point should you identify your audience in these processes? Provide examples of when you recently wrote for two different audiences. What influence did your audience have on your writing?…
|What do you want your readers to learn and understand after |I want my audience to understand…
In her book, "The Author To Her Book", Anne Bradstreet conveys the deep and intricate demeanor of the author towards her work. Bradstreet uses a controlling metaphor of a child and its mother to describe all of these feelings towards one of her other pieces. To do this, she incorporates many figurative language devices within the controlling metaphor to help bring her point across to the minds of the readers. They include diction, imagery, and irony.…
Asset Placement or Passing grade of C or better in 1400, (or a score of at least 75 on the COMPASS writing skills test, and a score of at least 85 on the COMPASS reading skills test, or a score of at least 44 on the ASSET reading skills test.…
The audience is important in order to create common ground and achieve some definable audience outcomes. The audience may initially be a friendly audience, an undecided audience, a neutral audience, a hostile audience, an unfamiliar audience, or a linked audience.…
If we know the audience, we can more effectively communicate with and persuade that audience. My motivation is to get satisfaction from expressing my ideas and getting recognition from the audience.…
Readers and Writers One common myth about writing is that everything comes naturally to the writer, everything in literature comes easily and instinctually. However, in the article, “The Inspired Writer vs. The Real Writer” by Sarah Allen claims that there is no such thing as the “Inspired Writer”, it is simply a figure that writing comes easily to, a figure that doesn't truly exist, but the real writer comes with real struggles as well. In the article, “What is Academic Writing?” by L. Lennie Irvin states the meaning of what real academic writing is.…
Throughout her multitude of works, author Flannery O’Connor employs the primary use a descriptive style of writing, with her works illustrating religion. Religion makes an appearance throughout her works, but for all the wrong reasons. Without context, religion is often seen as a positive, but under the hands of O’Connor, religion is depicted as being manipulated and used for crime. This can be visualized within her three works, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” and “Good Country People,” as within those short stories, religion is introduced and used in a twisted manner. Although religion is a central component to her descriptive writing style, O’Connor also frequently utilizes as elements of that style, foreshadowing,…
Knowing your audience is one of the most important factors when communicating to an audience. When communicating to an audience some things to considerate is the type of people you are talking to and if they’re ill, young, old, corporate or the media. Once you know your audience then you can come up with the appropriate way to communicate with them.…
After reading the article, “Reading Like a Writer”, it made me aware of my reading behaviors. Just like the text, I read to try to understand what the author is attempting to portray. However, what I am doing differently is only reading for information. What the text suggests that readers do is to ask yourself why the author used that method of writing, whether it's persuasive, ironic, or dramatic. Additionally, the author recommends that you discover who the intended audience is; this will benefit you because it makes you understand why the author used this style of writing.…
For me personally, selecting an audience can be somewhat a confusing and daunting task. While writing, I find that there can be purpose for a variety of readers. Trimming it down to a select few (my audience) is sometimes hard to do. I really have to sit back and examine the message I am trying to get across, and determine who really needs to read what I have to present, and who will benefit the most from it. This also works its way into including logos, ethos and…
Audience: Who are my intended readers, and what are their values and assumptions? What do they already know or believe about my subject? How much do they care about it?…
1.2 Explain the reasons for knowing the audience to whom the communication is being presented…
When one learns that innocence is just one part of life, their life just begins. In the short story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker one ten year old girl is met face to face with innocence’s biggest rival, evil. A summer is full with laughter and joy just like Myops until she encounters evil for the first time which ends her summer.…