Thursday, October 7, 2010

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