Salvador Chavez and Shang Wang
ENG. 1320/1301.161
Trang Phan
Oct. 7, 2010
Author(s):Peter Elbow “Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience”. Collage English,Vol.49,No.1 (Jan., 1987), pp. 50-60
The more experience writers will go and write and try to suit the reader and they
don’t even take their own consider into it; and the least experienced will go off and just w
rite what they feel making it about them self’s which end up difficult to understand by the
readers. This audience can make us be in a state of mind that is hard to translate thoughts
into words because we are too nervous to do so. The audience awareness disturbs and
disrupts our Writing and thinking without completely blocking it. An audience can be as a
field force when writers begin to think about readers as they write to try to express their
ideas and main points clearly. As a listener I can get more ideas I wasn’t thinking about
closing your eyes as you speak can help you regain your thoughts and express better your
ideas. According to one of the models people learn discourse because they have an audience,
and this is good to be a better writer.
Question: Elbow argues that the audience is a field force. What do you understand about? Have you experience inviting enabling?
Response: I do agree that the audience is a field force because it impacts you in
a certain way that can make shy and nervous or make you have more ideas. It feels
like a rush of energy flowing through your body make you have different feelings and
thoughts. Yes I have experience enabling because some times when I prepare a speech
and I go and present it more ideas came to my mind as I’m talking in front of the
audience and the speech came up different than I planned to be.
you guys gave pretty good points on the summary but your response needed more detailed information
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