首页
登录
职称英语
Audience of WritingAudience is a very important concept for writing. You need t
Audience of WritingAudience is a very important concept for writing. You need t
游客
2023-12-08
14
管理
问题
Audience of Writing
Audience is a very important concept for writing. You need to analyze your audience in terms of the following aspects ;
I. Your social relations to your audience
Through writing,you are making social (1)_____
with other members of the society.
II. Their (2)_____of your subject
This analysis is particularly valuable in (3)_____
writing. III. Their (4)_____to the subject and your position in the writing
This analysis is extremely important in (5)_____
writing.
1) To those who agree, (6)_____the importance
of your position.
2) To those who are neutral or undecided, address their (7)_____as directly and fully as
possible.
3) To those who disagree, try to find out why
they disagree. There may be two reasons for their disagreement: —lack of information
—personal,political or (8)_____reasons
For the former,give them relevant information as
(9)_____as possible.
For the latter,you need to show your (10)_____
of them and address them accordingly. [br]
Audience of Writing
Good morning. Today we will talk about the audience of writing. 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 these elements,the audience. This is a very important concept for writing. Here we expand the term audience to include readers of written materials or any discussions of writing activities. The importance of a keen awareness of your audience throughout the writing process cannot 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,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 the director of your business firm? To the admission office of an American college? In each situation,you have a different social relationship with your audience and this relationship 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.
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 need 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. 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. 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.
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.all you need to do is restate why such a relationship is in the vital interests of both countries and of the whole world.
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 less 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. 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? (7) Once you find out why your audiences are undecided. you need to address their doubts and concerns as directly and fully as possible. You have a fairly good chance of winning them over when their questions are answered satisfactorily.
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.
There are two main possible reasons why your audiences may disagree with you;l) 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 why they disagree, you can decide what is the best approach to such audiences. (9) 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. (8) (10) 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. In actual practice, you may need to analyze your audience in terms of three factors: social relations, knowledge, and viewpoints in order to decide the best approach for your writing. And in the next lecture, we’ll discuss the writing purpose and your role in the writing. Thanks for your attention!
选项
答案
recognizing and understanding
解析
本题为细节题。此处讲到的是针对第二点原因的对策If it is for personal,political and religious reasons,you need to recognize them,understand them,and address them accordingly.根据题干的结构,此处应该用动各词形式,故答案为recognizing and understanding,或者其中之一也可。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3256626.html
相关试题推荐
AudienceofWritingAudienceisaveryimportantconceptforwriting.Youneedt
AudienceofWritingAudienceisaveryimportantconceptforwriting.Youneedt
AudienceofWritingAudienceisaveryimportantconceptforwriting.Youneedt
AudienceofWritingAudienceisaveryimportantconceptforwriting.Youneedt
AudienceofWritingAudienceisaveryimportantconceptforwriting.Youneedt
______isthefirstimportantgovernessnovelintheEnglishliteraryhistory.A、
______isawordwhichisthereflectionofmorethanoneobjectsorconcepts.A、
ThemostimportantcontributionofthePragueSchooltolinguisticsisthatits
OneofthemostimportantlakesintheUnitedStatesis______,whichisthelarg
______isthemostimportantofallAmericancrops.A、WheatB、CornC、CottonD、Ric
随机试题
Therearemanywaysinwhichthephenomenaoflanguageandcultureareint
What’saUniversityEducationWorth?I.Studentsgradua
合力一定大于分力。()
材料需用计划通常以单位工程为对象,结合材料消耗定额,逐项计算需用材料的品种、规格
患者女性,29岁,多尿、骨痛、双下肢无力1年,加重10天,查体:血压160/11
需求拉动的通货膨胀通常是指由于()所引起的价格水平持续上涨的经济现象。A.某种供
撰写于我国战国末期,被认为世界上最早专门论述教育问题的文献是()A.《学记》
下列哪项表述不是伯吉斯城市土地利用同心圆模型的特征?()A.中央商务区是城市
神经症的共同特征包括()。多选A.社会功能相对良好 B.自知力相对完整
土木建筑工程项目保险金额不能超过安装工程一切险金额的(),超过时,应按建筑工程
最新回复
(
0
)