ENC 1102 - Assignment for 2/4

Audience Awareness

The author of my article spoke of how audience awareness is only possible at a certain cognitive level. The author starts off by claiming that being able to speak to a certain audience is only possible after all other writing processes have become automatic. Once the basic writing processes have become second nature, the writer is free to adapt their writing to target a specific audience. According to the author audience awareness in writing is an important feature that has to be considered when one wants to distinguish between a novice from expert writer. Thus, the author compared to different groups of students, fifth graders and ninth graders. After the study the author concluded that the "texts written by ninth grade students have a higher degree of suitability to the audience than those written by fifth graders." The results published with the article support the authors in his claim.