SQR6

Marcela Cardenas

Andrea Alanis

ENG 1320/1301.158

October 6, 2010

SQR 6 – Closing my eyes as I speak

Summary

In the reading “Closing my eyes as I speak” Peter Elbow says and explains how he intends not to undermine the benefits of writing with audience awareness, but instead of that celebrate the benefits of ignoring the audience. The author also mentions how some audiences can some times inspire the students and make them enable their writing, but never leaving out the idea that there are some audiences that intimidate the students. The author also mentions that ignoring the audience could be extremely beneficial for students.

Peter Elbow also mentions that in order to prevent a writer’s block and frustration the writer must sometimes ignore the audience and this will give the result of a better writing. In this article the author also talks about the audience awareness and how this get related with the writer-based prose and the reader-based prose. The author also mentions that we should encourage students to ignore the audience in order to recognize the audience awareness and in order for them to make a better work or presentation.

This article is just about how the audience awareness is related to the fears of speaking and how a student can develop better their work when they ignore o when they not ignore and audience.

QUESTION:

How is audience awareness related to writer-based prose and reader based-prose?

In the reading “Closing my eyes” the author talks about audience awareness and how is this related with writer-based prose and reader-based prose. Audience awareness is completely related to writer-based prose and reader-based prose because an audience is who understands when someone writes as a reader-based prose and that is when the audience understand but when someone use the writer-based prose that is when the audience does not understand.

Audience awareness is also related to writer and reader based prose because it depends in how much a person concentrates to the audience that he or she is presenting to and how the speakers tries to communicate with the audience. Sometimes the person who is exposing just concentrate in his own speech trying to avoid the audience to achieve a better work but there are other times in which the speaker just concentrates in its audience and try its best to explain its work and that is when the audience awareness does not  work in relationship with the writer-based prose.