Reflection on Audience Awarness

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?
As a writer, you must think of the audience as you compose. This is one of the most important essentials of becoming a good writer. On the other hand, Elbow expresses the difficulty of speaking amongst a crowd of people and gives some good tactics to overcome this fear. These two articles show how Audience Awareness can be classified as a good and bad, also the importance of using the audience as a reference to your writing & reading.
　
2. In general, what have you learned from Linda Flower’s and Peter Elbow’s article as a writer and as a reader?
I’ve learned that there is much more to reading and writing then I thought there was. Thinking as a reader while writing is a major key in writing because it creates a bond between you and the reader and helps the writer carry his message out with out any confusion towards the reader. I never knew there was a more improved way of reading till I read this article. Reading rhetorically has changed my view as a reader not only mentally but emotionally as well. Making a connection with the writer lets you share the same feelings and thoughts as if you are in the paper too. Now that I have the knowledge of reading rhetorically, I feel that it brings me closer to the writer.