SQR 6

Zalina Nazarova and Adrian Badillo
Eng 1320/1301.158
Phan Trang
Closing my eyes as I speak: An argument for ignoring audience
This article talks about some techniques which will help students not to struggle or feel nervous while giving a speech in front of huge audience. There are two types of audience. First are inviting or enabling, and when we think about them as we write, we usually think of more and better things to say. It’s like talking to the perfect listener. Second is inhibiting. There are certain people who always make us feel stupid or dumb when we try to speak to them, which mean we can’t find words or thoughts. And as soon as we get out of their presence, all the things that we wanted to say pop back into our minds. The awareness of audience disturbs our writing and thinking. For example when we write to our teacher or professor we often start to think defensively. As we write our minds fills with thoughts of how the intended reader will criticize it. So we try to qualify what we write and our writing becomes tangled or empty. So what we should do is we need to ignore the audience during writing and write to ourselves. This strategy always dissipates the confusion. After we have figured out our thinking in draft writing we can follow the traditional rhetorical advice: think about readers and revise carefully to adjust our thoughts and words to our intended audience. So as a writer we need to learn when to think about audience and when to put readers out of mind. After examine good student or professional writing you can see that writer’s having gotten sufficiently wrapped up in her meaning and her language and have forgotten all about audience needs. It also been said that writers need to escape their audience in order to find their own ideas. What most readers’ value in really excellent writing is not prose that is right for readers but prose that is right for thinking, language, or right for the subject being written about.

Q.What are the influences of audience while writing?

R.Audience adaptation is an initial step to evaluate the relationship between writer and reader. It is the concept of an author structuring and styling the way information is written based on who the author feels will be reading her text. The consideration of audience affects the style, tone and way an author chooses to write as a result. A writer is forming thoughts and conveying information in a style she/he believes will help an audience better understand context. Interpretations of text rely on the individual’s experiences and previous knowledge. To stylize work toward a particular audience, a writer must develop assumptions about who the audience consists of and how they would interpret ideas. So for example there is a huge difference if your audience is professor or high school student. If your audience is professor you will use different phrases, scholar information or resources, you will follow certain rules and things like that. Where in the situation where your audience is high school student you will not care about scholar information or scholar sources, or your phrases won’t look so complicated it would be very simple. Writers are always relay on their audience, while writing, in order to make some changes in their writing because each kind of audience has different knowledge and status.