How I adapt my speech and writing for different people would be to understand the reader, and make sure I know who my audience is. If you know who your audience is you will know how to write to where it will keep their attention. For instance you would write for different ages, you wouldn't write big words that a younger audience couldn't understand, but then you wouldn't write like a child if your audience was an older crowd. If I was writing something about a certain sex like menstrual cycle I would direct it more towards women
Thesis statements and PEE structure are important for academic audiences because they tell your reader about the discussion, and allows them the opportunity to keep reading or it may be of no interest to them. Thesis statements tell people what to expect from the rest of the paper. It keeps the reader interested to see what they are going to read next. This also gets the reader and opportunity to dispute your paper, and make a claim that may be in the beginning of your paper.
Understanding the reader, could have been the title for one of our blogs. Audience can mean one reader or many readers. I always try to write my paper centered around who my reader is. The one that always baffles me is when I know more than one kind of audience is going to read the same paper. What do we do then?
ReplyDeleteI think knowing your audience is crucial in effectively getting your point across. I agree you wouldn't deliver a speech to children and adults the same way. Like Jason I find it hard to write a paper that will be delivered to a diverse audience. That is something I'm hoping to learn in this class.
ReplyDeleteStacy, your writing process seems to be influenced by your emotional connections with the topic and its content. When you encounter blander topics, I encourage you to find a personal connection or meaningfulness. Your thoughts about audience illustrate how the demographics matter. Women may find certain topics more interesting than men, and vice-versa. There are many other aspects of an audience, and writers have to figure out as many of them as possible in order to create common ground between themselves and their (diverse) audiences.
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ReplyDeleteUnderstanding who your audience is is very important. Your examples on adapting your writing to different readers explained that concept very well. I liked how you said that the thesis statement helps the audience decide if they want to keep reading the paper or not. I agree that thesis statements help direct the reader and help them understand the message of the paper.
I enjoyed your post very very much. It was very informative and right to the point. I think you had a nice perspective on writing to your audience. I liked the example you used about using more complex speech for an adult audience and tiny winy words for kids. If i could make only one suggestion, define what P.E.E. is for the audience or any other terms that a common man would not know.
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