Response to Audience Awareness

1. Linda Flower stresses the importance of audience awareness in composing while Elbow concludes that the question/issue with audience awareness is when. How would you explain the connections between these two points of view?
Audience awareness is best used to keep your thoughts in a straight flow. if the writer only writes to convey thought and doesn't keep it to the audience level they may lose the reader's interest. Both articles state that the writer has to write towards the audience gain their attention.

2. In general, what have you learned from Linda Flower’s and Peter Elbow’s article as a writer and as a reader?
That it is a good idea to keep the audience in mind but to shut them out when the flow of writing is disrupted or not going the right direction. This way the writing satisfies the reader and the writer

September 30 Questions.

Q1. You are probably aware of the importance of Rhetorical reading thus far. I would like to know how you would evaluate your use of rhetorical reading strategies and whether you will have any plans to improve your rhetorical skills and what are the plans?
A1:I use rhetorical stratagies often, but i will use it more effectively in the future.


Q2. You are also expected to have a good understanding about Writer-Based Prose and Reader-Based Prose and the difference between them lies in the use of Rhetorical Strategies. I would like to know how you would differentiate the use of rhetorical strategies in writing (from reading as above) and what will be your plans to improve your rhetorical strategies in writing.
A2: the difference is the way a essay is written. If it is written as information from both sides, it is reader-based prose. If it is written as facts that support an idea, it is writer-based prose. i plan to improve my ablities by rereading my essays and rewrite them with more easily understandable words and ideas.

Questions

1. What were your concerns about in an SQR? What would you like the group to consider, respond to, or evaluate on an SQR of yours?
My concerns are that people think that my writing may be almost perfect, due to my long-winded explanations and my use of higher vocabulary. I would like to have people comment more on my lacking of keeping to summerizing in the "S" part, i have a bad habit of putting my ideas in instead of the facts.


2. How did you see/evaluate the comments you made on your peers’ papers? Honestly, do you think they were really helpful? (It’s ok that you can say no. If that’s the case, please state what made you unable to provide specific comments as you wished. It’s important for me to know how carefully you read your peers’ papers and how did you work on commenting your friends’ papers).
Due to my lack of wanting to be less than polite, i tend to be lenient on people. no my comments are not helpful