1. I’ve never tried, at least most of the times, to find out the author’s intended audience before reading the piece. My last quarter though, my professor urged me to write for a specific audience and I also had to choose the context of the essay. So I see a similarity between RLW and the works which I’ve completed last quarter. The differences are that RLW is more specific in terms of its analysis. I didn’t particularly pay a lot of attention to techniques that I used in my writing. Also, RLW encourages you to analyze the format of the essay which I think is very helpful.
2. I have my own distinct dictions and rhetorical strategies which the audience could identify in my works if I write about something. I think I’m quite a technical writer so the reader could see many logos in my writing. I don’t use many personal examples in my writing; I think it’s something that I need to work on.
3. I like the specificity of this essay. Everything, even the small words that you choose, has to serve a purpose. You have to be conscious about your own position and your audience when you write something also. I’ll try to apply this to my writing as early as I could. I’ll try to be more mindful about my purposes and my use of words.
4. You’ll try to research the time and conditions the work was written. You also want to find out who the author is and what his intended audiences and purposes are. Understanding the biography of the author and the historical context the book might be written in could also help a lot with the analysis. Also you can read the summary of the certain work.
Hi Hoa. Full credit on your first post.
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