"Reflection on Audience Awareness"

1.Linda Flower stresses the importance of audience awareness in composing while Elbow concludes that the question/issue with audience awareness is when. How would you explain the connections between these two points of view?

Respond: Flower explains that we should be aware of our audience while Elbow wants us to ignore the audience but to go back and try to get familirise with the audience for help when we need it. When I get in front to an audience i would sometimes block my toughts because I get nervous in front of the audience that when I use my paper to try to block the audience and try to start talking, but if I don't have anything to say I would then look at the audience for some help.



2.In general, what have you learned from Linda Flower’s and Peter Elbow’s article as a writer and as a reader

Respond: What I have learn from this authors is that in Linda Flower's article she talks about writer based prose and reader base prose and she says that writer based prose is just like blocking the audience when reading or writing. But Elbow explains in his article that Flower miss some stuff on writer based prose. It says that "Many people are too quick to see Flower's "writer-based prose" as an analysis of what's wrong with this type of writing and miss the substantial degree to which she was celebrating a natural, and indeed developmentally enabling, response to cognitive overload". And as a writer I think I should be more open to an audience and be natural around them when I am speaking to them what I wrote on my paper.

"Rhetorical Awareness"

Q1. You are probably aware of the importance of Rhetorical reading thus far. I would like to know how you would evaluate your use of rhetorical reading strategies and whether you will have any plans to improve your rhetorical skills and what are the plans?

Respond: To this point my usage of rhetorical strategies is not good, but from this day on I would try to use the rhetorical strategies on the SQR'S. Which means that I would go back to my reading and examine the article more that one time. I would also try to check my spelling and other kind of mistakes from my paper. I would also check for any repetition of my words,and i will also give more example either from the article or from my own experienced.

Q2. You are also expected to have a good understanding about Writer-Based Prose and Reader-Based Prose and the difference between them lies in the use of Rhetorical Strategies. I would like to know how you would differntiate the use of rhetorical strategies in writing (from reading as above)and what will be your plans to improve your rhetorical strategies in writing.

Respond: My plans for using rhetorical strategies in my writing would be by reading the article carefully and trying to get the main points from the article. I would also revised my writing paper more than once and i would try not to have any repetition of my words.

1. What were your concerns about in an SQR? What would you like the group to consider, respond to, or evaluate on an SQR of yours?

I like doing the SQRs in groups but what i don't like is that some of the classmates don't revise your paper to the fullest. I would like for my classmates to check for grammar or any misspelling. Also I would like that if they do not like my paper to leave me a comment saying go back and write more or something like that.

2. How did you see/evaluate the comments you made on your peer's paper? Honestly, do you think they were really helpful? (It's ok that you can say no. If that's the case, please state what made you unable to provide specific comments as you wished. It's important form me to know how carefully you read your peer's papers and how did you work on commenting your friend's papers).

When i was reading my peers paper i was going through the summary and see if they have the main points from the article and see if they have examples. I think that my peers were not very helpful in revising my paper, although some groups were helpful and telling me my weakness on my paper. And that is what i would do for them when i would get their paper.