The Audience and Writing
Audience. Just one word yet it stirs frighteningly confusing images of perplexing thoughts in my mind. The word alone is strange, but when put in context of an essay it leaves me baffled and frustrated[d1] . The questions; “What is Audience?” “Why do I need it?” and, “What purpose does it serve?” are important to my finally some day understanding the concept of Audience, but at this point I can’t answer them fully[d2] . I can grasp the understanding of all the other aspects of writing an essay, although I may not incorporate them well in my paper at least I see why they are important. Audience, to me, is not so easy to understand.
After reading The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing and the assigned chapters given to us for each writing essay in W131 class[d3] , I am still left with an unclear picture of what to do with Audience in my papers. When thinking about Audience I think of who I’m writing to, just who is my paper directed at[d4] . Is it one person? Am I writing towards a group, or society? Is my essay directed at a large Audience, perhaps an entire culture? Is it good to have a small or large Audience[d5] ? When writing towards a large audience the paper has to cover a larger base of information, since more people means more diversity, and a greater difference in opinions, you must write about enough variety that the entire Audience can understand, follow, and see your paper clearly. Large Audiences can leave the reader confused, or perhaps make them not want to finish the essay at all. For myself I think it’s best if I narrow my Audience down to a small group, or even one person when writing my essays[d6] . Although I haven’t done so in the past it’s probably the best...
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...le with bone cancer, or even further and go down to a limb with cancer, like hand, or bone marrow, etc. I would have an even more specific Audience which would allow me to get very detailed and intimate with my facts[d18] . A larger Audience would be good if I wanted to write a broad paper that gives only general ideas or facts and doesn’t get to intimate in one area. This leads into the idea of mixing, it’s not wise to mix an Audience, what I mean by this is starting off with a large Audience and then getting very detailed into one aspect of that topic, this would cause the writer to lose a large number of their readers[d19] . Without an Audience one can’t write a paper, it’s like heading out on a trip with no destination in min
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Ramage, John, John Bean. The Allyn And Bacon Guide To Writing. Massachusetts: A Pearson Education Company, 2000[d21] .
The 1920s became known as an era memorable for being a time when new products, new ways of marketing and advertising, and standardization gave the country new ways to interact, enjoy themselves, and introduce them to new products. Although very common today, standardization of mass culture like magazines, radio, movies, music, and sports were exciting new innovations to the people of this time. Not only did they distract from the monotony and stresses of work but they created celebrities that people aspired to be like.
Barnet, Richard J. “The Ideology of the National Security State”. The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 26, No. 4. 1985, pp. 483-500
His conclusion creates a world where a cabal of geniuses, collected from around the globe during World War II, join together with the American government to continue wartime propaganda’s work of controlling an unsuspecting populace. An author could occasionally push logic to an extreme wing as a devil’s advocate and with full disclosure. But by positioning himself as a conspiracy theorist instead of a skeptical yet credible source, Glander’s argument becomes too extreme to even grant this leniency. His running theme of the “multiply deceptive ways mass communications research has been used to sustain a dominant view” (2000, p. 211), asserted with no counter-argument, leaves the piece unable to be called a researc...
Entertainment was a major part of society in the 1920’s, and technology advancement allowed the recognition of entertainment to steadily i...
Throughout humanity’s existence, arguments and beliefs have been validated with evidence of recorded past events and with memories. History can only exist because humanity can record it and remember it, so this allows for an opportunity to become very powerful if this truth is exploited correctly, and, eerily, the Party knows exactly how to exploit it. “If the party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened – that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture or death” (34). The Party has absolute, unwavering control of the present, and therefore, it has the ability to alter the recorded past. Because human memory is elusive and often inaccurate, the only way to know, without doubt, of the happening of an event in the past, is through recorded history (Mohomed 74). Thus, the citizens of Oceania, being deprived of true historical recordings, must believe and accept that all Party propaganda is true, and this allows the party to justify any action that it
The audience of a paper effects the entire tone and feel of it. When I first wrote the rhetorical analysis essay I considered my audience as the professor. I assumed this because she would be the one reading the essay. My assumption caused me to omit details and kept my writing too formal. By revising my audience, it allows for a larger scope of focus for the essay. Once I figured out that my audience was my peers the essay flowed much better. For example, I explained the idea of logos and other types of appeals. After I had revised my audience the essay began to sound and flow
Writing with Readings and Handbook. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2013. 52-57. Print.
During the 1920's a dramatic change occurred in American Society. American people experienced a period in their life that would not only affect the economy but even their own personal lives. African Americans had little to celebrate in this period except for the cultural movements such as Harlem Renaissance, which they introduced themselves. The 1920's were a period that reached both blacks and whites and forced everyone to pay attention. Racial incidents still took place throughout the United States before the 1920's. In 1920 the women?s suffrage was finally achieved with the nineteenth amendment. This was also a change because it left the women's movement confused and uncertain about its goals and its future strategies.
The 1920s in America, known as the "Roaring Twenties", was a time of celebration after a devastating war. It was a period of time in America characterised by prosperity and optimism. There was a general feeling of discontinuity associated with modernity and a break with traditions.
The text defines avoidance learning as the process of learning to stay away from aversive stimulus. (Ormrod, 2012 pg. 71) Well no kidding, people tend to avoid things that cause them pain, anxiety, or frustration. I learned when I was very young to not stick a key into an electrical outlet. That memory is still very vivid and I can almost feel the shock and see the spark when I think about it. However, avoidance learning is more than just avoiding pain or anxiety; avoidance learning requires a couple of parts. First, in order to “learn” avoidance you need to have bad experience, ie aversive stimuli. (Ormrod, 2012) Then a connection needs to be made, whether it be conscious or not, real or not, logical or not, some connection between what happened to you and the cause or at least the warning signs that the “bad” thing is going to happen again. (Ormrod, 2012) This warning sign or feeling that if you do whatever action something bad will happen to you is labeled as a pre-aversive stimulus. (Ormrod, 2012) For ...
Gregory Rodriguez, the author of “Truth Is In The Ear of the Beholder” shares his ideas of why there are rumors and how rumors are able to thrive because people who believe them are “predestined to believe them” (Rodriguez 484). Rodriguez supported his ideas with other’s work and gave examples to support his ideas. Throughout Rodriguez’s work he left readers questioning more about why people participate in listening and/ or spreading rumors. The reason why rumors are listen to and spread is because societies want answers and will accept rumors as answers; it doesn 't matter whether they are right or wrong as long as our curiosity is fed.
The audience I decided to target was mostly kids, but it’s also strongly directed towards adults and young adults. I focused the most on persuading kids because kids are our future and kids will grow up with the idea of
There are three types of rumors, the pipe-dream rumor, the Bogie rumor, and the Wedge-driving Aggression rumor. The Pipe-dream rumor can be characterized as the expressions of the hopes and wishes of those among they circulate. The Bogie rumor is the exact opposite of the Pipe-dream, whereas instead of the expressing the hopes and wishes it expresses the fears and anxieties. The Wedge-driving Aggression rumor has the central motivation of aggression or hatred. It’s named this because it has the effect of dividing groups and destroying loyalties.
It would seem that the audience that they are trying to capture in this book, I think, are the type of people that pay close attention to media that occur with these type of events.
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