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ERIC/RCS Report: Reaching beyond the Teacher as Audience.
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O'Donnell, Holly – Language Arts, 1982
Explores activities described in ERIC documents that are designed to create in the student an awareness of audience beyond the classroom setting. (HTH)
Descriptors: Audiences, Elementary Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Exercises
Bait/Rebait: Writing for an Audience.
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Hashimoto, Irvin Y.; Flower, Linda S. – English Journal, 1983
Presents opposing views on the wisdom of teaching student writers to write for an "audience." (JL)
Descriptors: Audiences, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
The Beginning and End of Writing: The Relationship of Writer-Subject-Audience.
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Smelstor, Marjorie – Exercise Exchange, 1981
Describes a teaching unit designed to help students discover the interaction of writer, subject, and audience. Reviews the major types of writing used in the unit and the various audiences for whom the students wrote. (FL)
Descriptors: Audiences, Higher Education, Interaction, Personal Writing
Readers, Writers, and Abstractions: A Communications Drama.
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Berkenkotter, Carol A. – English Journal, 1982
Presents a sequence of writing assignments in the form of a dialogue between a teacher and members of a rhetoric class that calls attention to the crucial relation between the writer and the audience. (JL)
Descriptors: Audiences, Creative Teaching, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Introducing Rhetoric in Remedial Writing Courses: Staffroom Interchange.
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Baldwin, Dean R. – College Composition and Communication, 1978
Suggests the value of a prewriting sheet which asks remedial students to specify an occasion, audience, and purpose for each of their one-paragraph papers. (DD)
Descriptors: Audiences, Higher Education, Perspective Taking, Prewriting
Technical Writing Students as Audiences.
Sachs, Harley L. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1980
Describes a three-step communications loop involving student self-descriptions that promote greater audience awareness. (RL)
Descriptors: Audiences, Higher Education, Perspective Taking, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Context and Children's Writing.
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Hudson, Sally A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1986
Describes children's views of the contexts surrounding their writing and examines five contextual factors: ownership, setting, audience, purpose, and genre.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Audiences, Context Effect, Elementary Secondary Education
Technical Writing Methods Show Ways to Consider Audience.
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Olson, Lyle D. – Journalism Educator, 1989
Suggests that few references to the important issues of audience awareness exist in news writing textbooks and that technical writing literature can fill this gap. Identifies two main aspects of audience awareness, three key reasons why it should be taught to journalists, and gives audience types. Provides classroom exercises. (MS)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Audiences, Higher Education, Journalism Education
Ten Reasons to Write for Your Students.
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Broz, William J. – English Journal, 1988
Lists 10 ways to involve students in the teacher's writing that can be beneficial to both teachers and their students. (MS)
Descriptors: Audiences, Grade 11, Poetry, Prewriting
Writing for a Real Audience.
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Nelson, Shirley – Exercise Exchange, 1982
A unit for teaching writing to senior high school students is described in this brief article. AUTHOR'S COMMENT (excerpt): I have used the following exercises to help writing students develop a stronger sense of audience. The sequence of activities is divided into three phases--prewriting, drafting, and rewriting--and a fourth phase of publishing…
Descriptors: Audiences, High Schools, Learning Activities, Short Stories
Creating an Audience for the Research Paper.
Palumbo, Roberta M. – Writing Instructor, 1983
Explains how providing a general theme and a varied audience for writing helped improve student research papers. (FL)
Descriptors: Audiences, Higher Education, Motivation Techniques, Reading Materials