A Heuristic Model for Creating a Writer’s Audience
A Heuristic Model for Creating a Writer’s Audience
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创建作家受众的启发式模型
DOI:
10.2307/356376
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发表时间:
1980
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通讯作者:
Joanne F. Petrick
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作者:
F. Pfister;Joanne F. Petrick
As teachers of writing, we have virtually ignored an integral part of the composition process: the audience. We have not taught our students how to analyze audience and why content and style must be formed by just such an analysis. Students can write successful sentences with mature syntactical fluency, have a clear thesis and adequate support for it following a logical mode of development, and still fail with their audiences because they do not have a suitable "rhetorical stance." They still fail to produce a successful composition because they have too little or no knowledge of their readers. Students become angry or discouraged with both the grade and the often not-too-helpful remarks they find scribbled on their papers when they are returned by composition teachers, and we should not blame them in the least. Those students who do write successfully for us often do so because they know us and can write successfully for the audience of one-the teacher. In a real writing situation, those students often do not do nearly as well. The question is: why have writing instructors neglected to teach audience?