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Audience Awareness of Writing I . Introduction—audience
Audience Awareness of Writing I . Introduction—audience
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2023-12-05
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Audience Awareness of Writing
I . Introduction
—audience refers to readers of written materials
—the content, structure and the style of the writing【B1】______its【B1】______
audiences
—view audiences from three angles
II. Writer’s social relation to the audience
Social relationship between the writer and the audience will【B2】______【B2】______
the form of the writing
III. Audience’s【B3】______of the subject【B3】______
—significant especially in informative and explanatory writing
e. g. When comparing the Mid-autumn Festival and Thanksgiving,
【B4】______and subtle similarities are preferable to detailed introduction to【B4】______
each holiday.
IV. Audience’s attitudes or viewpoints and the writer’s position
—most important in【B5】______writing【B5】______
—writer’s role: convince audiences of authenticity of a belief
—【B6】______of writing to different types of audiences【B6】______
1)favorable audience: doing nothing but【B7】______the reasons【B7】______
2)neutral or hesitant audience: having much to do to【B8】______the【B8】______
audience:
【B9】______the audience’s doubts and concerns and deal with them【B9】______
satisfactorily
3)opposing audience: analyzing the reasons of disagreement
—unwavering decision,【B10】______information, or influence in terms of【B10】______
personal, political, religious and other respects [br] 【B10】
Audience Awareness of Writing
Good morning, everyone. Before you write something, you need to have a clear idea of the topic, the audience, and the purpose of your writing. In this lecture, we’ll concentrate on one of those elements, the audience. This is a very important aspect for writing. The term audience usually refers to viewers of movies and TV shows and listeners of radio programs. Here we expand it to include readers of written materials in discussions of writing activities. Why is this concept so important?(1)As shown in the example in our book, the same topic, when written to different audiences, can have very different content, structure, style, etc. Thus, the importance of a keen awareness of your audience throughout the writing process can not be overemphasized. Audiences can be examined from three different perspectives:
1. your social relations to your audience:
2. your audience’s knowledge about your subject:
3. your audience’s attitudes or viewpoints to the subject and your position in the writing.
Let’s discuss them one by one. Now, the first point, analyze your audience in terms of your social relations. Whenever you write, you are interacting with other members of the society. Are you writing to a friend of yours? To a college student? To the director of your business firm? To the admission office of an American college?(2)In each situation, you have a different social relationship with your audience and this relation has a definite impact on the shape of your writing. No one in his or her right mind would write a letter of application to the dean of the graduate school as if the dean was one of his or her buddies.
(3)The second point, analyze your audience in terms of their knowledge of the subject you are writing about. This analysis is valuable particularly in informative and explanatory writing. Suppose you are writing a paper comparing the Mid-autumn Festival and Thanksgiving. How much knowledge would you assume your American readers already have about the Chinese holiday and how much about their own? Obviously,very little about the former and a whole lot about the latter. In such a paper, you want to take care not to bore your readers to death by telling them what they already know while leaving them tantalizingly unsatisfied about what they are so eager to learn.(4)The emphasis here should be to show the striking differences and subtle parallels rather than to give exhaustively detailed information on each holiday.
Now, the third point, analyze your audience in terms of their attitudes or viewpoints to the subject and your position in the writing.(5)This analysis is vitally important in writing persuasive or argumentative essays, which is much more complex and challenging. In a persuasive essay you present reasons and arguments to convince your readers that they should accept a belief or to take a position or a specific action. For persuasive or argumentative writings, you can classify audiences into three groups: those who agree, those who are neutral or undecided, and those who disagree.
(6 -1)When writing to an audience who already sees eye to eye with you about a controversial issue, is there much you need to do? Not much. If you are addressing an audience who already shares your view about developing and maintaining a mature and constructive relationship between China and the United States in the 21st century,(7)all you need to do is repeat why such a relationship is in the vital interests of both countries and of the whole world.
(6-2)(8-l)When writing to audiences who are neutral or undecided, you have the most to do and can hope to achieve a lot. Say you want to propose that a new financial aid system be established to help those bright students in rural and leas prosperous areas of the country. You are concerned that with today’s new tuition policy and practice, those students will be priced out of a chance for the high education they deserve so much.(9)Some people may be undecided because they have some doubts and concerns: Where does the money needed for such an aid come from? What are the specific standards whereby to award scholarships? Are there more fair and efficient alternative solutions? Once you find out why your audiences are undecided, you need to address their doubts and concerns as directly and fully as possible.(8-2)You have a fairly good chance of winning them over when their questions are answered satisfactorily.
(6-3)And audiences who disagree are the most difficult to write to. Different people disagree with you for different reasons. Some of them may have already given the issue a thought and have already made a choice: therefore, it is extremely difficult to change their minds. Others who disagree may not have had the time to think it over seriously.(10)There are two main possible reasons why your audiences may disagree with you: 1)because they don’t have the "facts" or because they look at the same "facts" differently: 2)because they are influenced by their personal opinion, prejudice, and political or religious beliefs. Once you have found out why they disagree, you can decide what is the best approach to such audiences. If it is a lack of information, your job is to give them the relevant historical as well as up-to-date information as accurately as possible. If it is for personal, political and religious reasons, you need to recognize them, understand them, and address them accordingly.
Now, we can see that audience awareness is so crucial to the success of your writing. And in the next lecture, we’ll discuss the writing purpose and your role in the writing. Thank you for your attention!
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答案
a lack of/insufficient
解析
本题设题点在原因解释处。根据句(10)可知,持有不同意见的读者主要出于两个原因:信息不足以及其他各个方面的影响,故答案为a lack of或者insufficient。
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