SQR 6

Daniel Garcia
Ricardo Salinas
ENG 1320/1301. 158
Trang Phan
10/4/2010
Summary
Closing my eyes as I speak: An argument for Ignoring Audience
This text is telling us that when we write an essay or something else, you have to know when you have to think as a reader, and when use the strategy of write to yourself, think that there is no going to be audience.
An audience is a field of force-the close we come, the stronger the pull they exert on the contents of our minds. There are friendly audience, that make you feel comfortable and that makes us feel smarter and we come up with ideas that we didn’t know we had. But in the other hand, we have audience that are powerfully inhibitng, is certain people that make us feel dumd when we try to speak to them. The effect of audience awareness is somewhere between: the awareness disturbs or disrupts our writing and thinking without completely blocking it.
The best way to make a good writing is when you know the exact point of when you have to think as a there is no audience and write your own point of view and then put yourself as a reader and make the corrections that you have to make so the reader can perfectly understand what you have wrote.



Question:
How does Peter Elbow describes audience awareness? In what way can audience awareness be helpful and hurtful when writing?
Response:
Some audiences, for example, are inviting or enabling. When we think about them as we write, we think of more and better things to say-and what we think somehow arrives more coherently structured than usual, when the audience its paying attetion to the writer he feels a positive feedback and he feels comfortable with the work he made and that’s a helpful audience.
Other audiences,. There are certain people who want to intimidate the writer, want to make him feel dumb and if the writer cares about what the audience thinks of them, he is not going to be comfortable with that type of audience, and he will loose focus about he just made. Sometimes the writer gives a wrong information because this kind of pressure.


Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience Author(s): Peter Elbow Source: College English, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jan., 1987), pp. 50-69 Published by: National Council of Teachers of English