Homework #2 Audience Awarness

Does audience awareness really affect they way a student writes a rough draft or the way another student offers revising that same paper. The article investigates a study group of college freshmen and the effects the writer’s attending to the informational needs of their readers have on drafting and revising. Throughout the article Roen and Wiley, the authors looked at three different treatment conditions first, no attention to the audience, second, attention to the audience before and during drafting, and third, attention to the audience before and during revising. Results indicated that “attending to the audience can be effective for improving the overall quality of the student’s writing.” In addition, attending to audience is less effective as a drafting strategy than it is as a revising strategy. Overall, the authors argue how the attention of the audience is key in prewriting and drafting activities but not as much needed in the revising stage.