SQR #6 Irma De Leon, Mireya Gonzalez

Irma Y. De Leon

Mireya Gonzalez

Eng 1320/1301.161

Inst.: Trang Phan

Date: 10-04-10

SQR #6

Author(s):  Peter Elbow “Closing My Eyes as I Speak: Argument for Ignoring Audience”

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

Summary

            This story is about a writer by the name of  Peter Elbow who close his eyes as he speak for ignoring audience and arguments that way he attempt to avoid audience awareness. What we think about this story and my conclusions to, it is that everything is about our behavior and sense of things one of the examples is closing your eyes as you speak, that is an instinctive attempt to blot out awareness and it is an instinct of behavior. The reading also explain that is very smart to use writer base prose because sometimes is better than reader base prose because I can explore some theories underlining these issues to the audience. Some Audience for example are inviting or enabling that kind of audience make me feel I can write better detail and structural way, and make me have more ideas to make a good writing. Also as a listener I feel smart and come up with ideas we didn’t know we had. Sometimes we realize how often audience are aware of the effect of us as student, some times we often start beating around the bush and feel sad, scared or start to write in a stilled  overly careful style or voice and we have to be an educated reader.

Question:

Elbow argues that the audience is a field force. What do you understand about? Have you experienced inviting enabling?

Response:

The audience is a feel of force because an audience can make you nervous and also can distract you. Also we can make any comment in front of audience that you can’t ever know and make you frustrated of what you are going to say and have fears on what their reaction would be. Like in our daily life’s we tend to have anxiety on doing a speech to the audience because you can get them bored and inpatient thru your comments and reading. But, audience is a good source of representing and judging your speech. There fore you might get intimidated by there thoughts and thinking.