Reflection on Audience Awarneness

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?The connection is that you can block the audience but overall you have to take into consideration who is reading your article.  Being aware of your audience you have an idea of you to target and will make your writing experience easier.

2.In general, what have you learned from Linda Flower’s and Peter Elbow’s article as a

writer and as a reader? In general what I have learned from both authors is that they both have different but unique techniques in writing.  Linda Flowers has showed me the importance in how to read a article and go behind the context and get the hidden message.  She has also taught me that as a writer you have to be able make your writing understandable for the reader, and that as writer we can sometimes be little selfish and not take the reader into consideration.  Peter elbow has taught me that the vary technique that i use when speaking of closing my eyes is common for blocking out the audience.  When you block out the audience to you enable yourself to write without the worry of your audience.

“Rhetorical Awareness”.

Q1.    You are probably aware of the importance of Rhetorical reading thus far. I would like to know how you would evaluate your use of rhetorical reading strategies and whether you will have any plans to improve your rhetorical skills and what are the plans? 

My rhetorical reading  strategies are not good at all.  I am unable to image what the writer is trying to describle to me.  Iam the type of reader that just read the text of the writing i memorize the content.


Q2.    You are also expected to have a good understanding about Writer-Based Prose and Reader-Based Prose and the difference between them lies in the use of Rhetorical Strategies. I would like to know how you would differentiate the use of rhetorical strategies in writing (from reading as above) and what will be your plans to improve your rhetorical strategies in writing.

writer based prose writes and tries to identify with the reader
reader based prose tries to understand the writer and hide the hidden messages
to improve my rhetorical strategies in writing i need to ask question, find out the audience and try to relate to them

Questions

1. What were your concerns about in a SQR? What would you like the group to consider, respond to, or evaluate on an SQR of yours?

2. How did you see/ evaluate the comments you made on your peers' paper?  Honestly, do you think they were really helpful?  ( It's ok that you can say no.  If that's the case, please state what made you unable to provide specific comments as you wished.  It's important for me to know how carefully you read your peers' papers and how did you work on commenting your friends' papers).

Answers to the Question

1. My concerns about an SQR are; first is the right information should be given in the summary,and the comments should be useful.  The material could be available for discussion, and the commenter needs to be honest  I would like for the groups to consider the writing as if they wrote it, and the response.  To make a good evaluation of a peers' writing, sufficient time and rigorous honestly needs to be given.

2. The comments that I gave on my peers' were not bias and I was honest.  I do think my comments would be consider by the writer to be fair and useful.  If I felt that the article need more to be included,  I commented that.  I would want my peers' to be honest with my article so i can identify my weakness thus allowing me to correct and improve my writing technique.