![]() ![]() Reader Response : The Country Wife June 15, 2017.Reading Response: The Way of the World June 15, 2017. ![]() Reader Response: The Man of Mode June 15, 2017.On the “Native American Renaissance” in Literature June 15, 2017.On the Concept of Honor in I Henry and Hamlet June 15, 2017.Critical Essay: Defeating Death through Selflessness in Shakespeare’s “Procreation” Sonnets June 15, 2017.On Guinier’s “The Tyranny of Majority” June 24, 2017.On Steele’s The Conscious Lover June 26, 2017.Case Study: Expanding Curriculum to Expand Minds: Incorporating Multiculturalism in the ELA Classroom to Dispel Racial Stereotypes and Promote Tolerance June 26, 2017.On Cushman’s “The Public Intellectual, Service Learning, and Activist Research” June 26, 2017.On Kirsch and Ritchie’s “Beyond the Personal: Theorizing a Politics of Location in Composition and Research” June 26, 2017.On Anson’s “Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of Technology” June 26, 2017.On Ede and Lunsford’s “Audience Addressed/ Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy” June 26, 2017.On Hillock’s “The Need for Interdisciplinary Studies on the Teaching of Writing” June 26, 2017.On Porter’s “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community” June 26, 2017.Précis Critiques: Aphra Behn’s The Rover June 26, 2017.In order to maintain balance with the function of the audience, writers must take into consideration their intended purpose and the rhetorical situation in order to determine if the audience is to be addressed or invoked. While it would be ideal to write without having to worry about the relevancy of the argument to each reader, the truth is that knowing the reader’s discourse is not always possible, so “constructing” the audience becomes necessary. I also find it necessary to write essays where I “construct” the audience, especially if I do not fully understand the rhetorical situation or the context in which the audience approaches the work. Without acknowledging these factors, I risk alienating my potential audience, especially if my argument does not complement the principles of their discourses. In my own writing, I find is it essential to write with “the audience’s attitudes, beliefs, and expectations” in mind. For writing to be effective, however, an author must possess a “fully elaborate view of audience” that balances “the creativity of the writer with the different, but equally important, creativity of the reader” (93). In the current debate over the role of the audience in writing, the opposing sides (“audience addressed” and “audience invoked”) fail to recognize the “fluid, dynamic character of rhetorical situations” and the “integrated, interdependent nature of writing” (78). They argue, however, that “the most complete understanding of audience… involves a synthesis of the perspectives,” focusing on both the reader and the writer (90). In “Audience Addressed/ Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy,” Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford claim that the current function of audience in Writing Studies seems to be limited “to a single option-to be for or against an emphasis on audience in composition courses” (78). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |