Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford analyze the subject of the audience in writing and the authors relationship with the audience. The two authors refer to Ruth Mitchell and Mary Taylor's piece "The Integrating Perspective: An Audience-Response Model for Writing" and base their analysis on where they agree or disagree with the two authors.
The first problem Ede and Lunsford address about Mitchell and Taylor's piece is what is left out. Ede and Lunsford point out that the two authors don't talk about invention, they don't address how the authors come up with ideas and form a written work. Another critique Ede and Lunsford offer has to due with the focus on the audience and not the writer.
Ede and Lunsford quote the Susan Wall, "when writers read their own writing, as they do continuously while they compose", 'there are really not one but two contexts for rereading: there is the writer-as-reader's sense of what the established text is saying, as of this reading; and there is the readers-as-writer's judgement of what the text might say or should say…"
The authors analysis of the quote is explained when they state "what is missing from Mitchell and Taylor's model, and from much work done from the perspective of audience as addressed, is a recognition of the crucial importance of this internal dialogue, through which writers analyze inventional problems and conceptualize patterns of discourse." I think this quote is the thesis of Ede and Lunsford piece.
The tension of different teachers having different perspective of what good writing is, is something we've explored together as a class and it comes up again in this article. I've never come across the debate of the audience addressed and audience invoked before this audience. I have had teachers tell me to just write and not worry about the audience and I guess that's what audience invoked is all about.
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