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Writing for Readers: The Primacy of Audience in Composing by Donald L. Rubin - 1998While writers usually keep thoughts like the above to
themselves, they are nonetheless driven by audience considerations. I
want to make a very strong claim about the preeminence of audience
in composing: writing is at its essence a social act, a rhetorical act, an
act of communication,
and thus affecting an audience in one way or
another is the very point of writing. Audience considerations can
affect those other aspects of writing typically included in models of
composing, such as retrieving prior knowledge about subject matter,
inventing or discovering new content, and applying knowledge of discourse
patterns and conventions.To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below: | This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 97, No. 2. |
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- Donald Rubin
University of Georgia
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DONALD L. RUBIN is Professor in the Department of Speech Communication and the
Department of Language Education at the University of Georgia.
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