Reflection on Audience Awareness

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?

Flower stresses on how we should be award of the audience when we write, as much as we can, while Elbow expresses on when not to worry much on audience awareness and when too. Elbow thinks that there’s a time of when to acknowledge the audience and when not to. It helps out the writer when they don’t have much stress on what the readers are going to say and comment on. They get to express themselves as they like and later on when they feel like their paper is good, take the audience in mind. While Flower talks about having the audience in mind the whole time you’re writing.



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

What I have learned in Linda Flower’s and Peter Elbow’s article is when to use those skills. Audience awareness, writer-based prose and reader-based prose, in this there’s a certain places or time I should say where it’ll help out the writer a lot in writing. The articles kind of contradicted each other but had great points and helped me understand that there’s a time of when to use this skills. As a reader i learned to be more honest when it comes to me writing comments. it helps out the writer out a lot. and try to give my comments in the best of my knowlege as a helpful way.

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?
I would use rhetorical reading strategies in the way that I would try to read beyond the text itself. I would try to see the many ways in what text is trying to say, in all the different ways I can. That’s my plan so far in rhetorical reading strategies I will try to improve my reading habits as best as I can.
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.

The difference between Writer-Based Prose and Reader-Based Prose is that Writer-Based is when you write just to write and do not really taken in consideration to your audience. Reader-Based Prose is when the writer actually takes their audience in mind. They try to make their paper as easy for their audience to understand. I think I am going to have a better understanding in writer and reader based prose because I now know what they mean. Hopefully I have understood how to read rhetorically in the papers, know that I know what it is as well. My plan to read rhetorically is to stop using my ways in reading and actually taking in consideration to read rhetorically.

Assignment 1

My concerns about SQR are one of two, first concern is how to start the summary. Most of my summaries start with “this summary was about…” I think that’s kind of basic and sometimes I write more than those 200 words, I really need to keep it sweet and short. And my second concern is how to stop writing in a response. When I really understand the question and it’s time to write a response sometimes I write more than I should. I elaborate way to much it’s not even funny.

          I would like the group to consider when reading my SQR is to be very honest with my paper, sometimes because of work I know I could of done a better job but I sometimes get a “that’s good, I like it” comment when I know I had mistakes and it could have been improved. I would like for them to respond or evaluate with what their really thinking, try to be honest but to a way that you would come off as trying to help not mean.  

          When it came to evaluating my peers’ papers I tried to help them the most I could. I tried to give my point of view, my best of understanding of their paper. Somewhere honestly good, they had their SQR flowing very well but to the once I might not understand one or two things I wrote it in the comments section in a helpful way. That’s what I would like on my papers evaluation.

          On some comments I can honestly say that the comments that I got really helped me. But to be honest the comments that really helped me were like one or two out of the five or six questions. I think when it came to me reading one of my peers paper, what really helped me was being in groups. When one of us read it out loud and didn’t understand a sentence or something like that we had someone there to reread it and sometimes it came out differently once someone else read it. That really helped. To hear it from someone else’s way of reading it really helped me and from that we could make an honest comment or tried.