SQR 6 ROCIO RENDON, MAYRA HERNANDEZ

ROCIO RENDON, MAYRA HERNANDEZ

ENG. 1301/1320.161

Instructor: Trang Phan

October 6, 2010

CLOSING MY EYES AS I SPEAK

CITATION: Authors: Peter Elbow ,Source: College English Vol. 49. No. 1 (Jan. 1997). pp. 59-69

published by: National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/377789 Assessed: 20/08/2010 15:42

This article gave us a real 360 turn to our whole perception of what thinking what to write was all about.Not only because i felt this kind of reaction really familiar in the moment of writing. Writing is a whole new concept of what we think and feel combined making us close our eyes whenever we feel we need to connect with our internal thoughts,and most profound feelings. This kind of reaction happens very often making us get in problems sometimes when we want to avoid the crowd looking straight at us searching for an answer or just waiting for one. It is clear that this arguement for writing without audience awareness of some time, for example that we are reliable to neglect audience because we write in solitude, that young people often need more practice in taking into account the points of view different from their own and that students often have an improvised sense of writing as communication because they have only written in a shcool setting to teachers.

Question?

* What do you think when the author says " the effect of audience awareness is somewhere between the two extremes: the awareness disturbs or disrupts our writing and thinking without completely blocking it" (p.51-52) (by your own words) ?



* Response:


When you read this statement and analyzed it, you can know that this thought it is totally true, for example on the first extremes that is the when the audience disturbs you : because sometimes the audience distract you from what do you want to express or say and you star to writing or thinking wholly defensively for the fear about been criticism what the other people think or say of your writing or speech, but on the other hand when the audience did that you block your mind for completely , there is when you have to work harder to fix and move on with you writing , because when the audience is somehow confusing , the solution is fairly obvious, we can ignore that the audience during the stages of writing and direct our words only to ourselves or to no one in particular.