Audience Awareness Article

Lauren Smoley & Anna Jones

http://www.jstor.org/stable/356601?seq=3

In the article, "Understanding a Writer's Awareness of Audience," Linda investigates whether or not experienced writers with formal training consider their audience more than writers without formal training. Although Linda believed that writers with rhetorical training would be more aware of their audience, she later found out, through her study, that there are two factors that play a bigger role in determining audience awareness. The two factors are whether or not the writer is informed as to who the audience will be, and also, how the writer views the task that is given to him or her. Therefore, the claim that Linda makes is that people with a better background in writing will be more aware of their audience compared to those with minimal amounts of writing in their background.