Baltazar Herrera SQR 6

Author:  Peter Elbow, Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience

Source: College English, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jan, 1987) pp.50-69

Published by: National Council of Teachers of English

What this article is mainly about is the way the author will write an essay or an article and to whom he is directing it to. The more experienced writers will go and write and try to suit the reader and they don’t even take their own consideration into it; and the least experienced will go off and just write what they feel and they make it too about them self’s witch will end up bad for the readers. It is also very difficult for writers to write for a group of people because this there are several different types of audiences and many time the writers will take their opinion into the writing. There is three types of audiences its inviting, enabling and inhibiting; each with their own opinion on an article. You see fir inviting and enabling what the author dose is he will try to make his writing a little more structured and better use of words; and for the inhibiting and for the inhibiting they try to use strong words to keep the readers into the story. This type of audiences is the reason that the authors will choose on who their writing is trying to reach.

Elbow argues that an audience is a field of force. What do you understand about this? Have you ever experienced inviting/enabling audiences or inhibiting ones for your writing? Can you explain how it felt?

You see I think that there is a force that cans ether helps of kill the writers writing. The audience is what the judge of writing is and for the most part they are the one who will end up critic in the paper. And that is what most of the writers fear. They fear that people will misjudge there paper of simply not understand it. I understand that this can help of kill the paper. I have never experienced any type of audiences for my writing because I have never written for a large mass of people, but I have spoken in front of my class and I see that I could relate what I felt when I was giving my speech to this situation. You see I was in my speech class and I guess I gave a boring speech and everyone was falling asleep and I felt I didn’t achieve what I was trying to say. The way I felt was horrible I just wanted to get off the podium and just sit down.