Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Writing Appropriately

In the reading the author stresses the importance of knowing your audience when you write a text. It is essential that you know what your audience already is aware of and what they want to be informed on. It is also important that you are presenting your text in a way that is acceptable to the reader. If a writer does not know who their audience is, the author stresses, they should become aware of what kind of information they should be presenting. In the reading it also characterizes a good narrative. A good narrative is detailed, has good dialogue and has a connection to the rest of the text at the ending. As a student, and someone who has read many books, articles, postings, and other various text, I agree a writer should be familiar with their audience. I also know from first hand experience that the form you write and how a person writes should be appropriate to the reader.
In the text the author says, "Do unto audiences as they would do unto you." This quote is very true. If I were writing to a future employee in the form of a resume it should be appropriate. For example jargon is not acceptable and most likely would lead to a negative response. In an english class the use of slang or short hand would not be acceptable in an english paper, for example. It is always important that a writer's text is acceptable to the one receiving it.

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