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Young, Debra Dimond; Morgan, Rachel – Composition Studies, 2020
In this study, we examine the use of community-engaged writing pedagogy and the authentic, contextualized writing projects it creates to determine if students better understand the concept of audience and incorporate that foundational knowledge into their writing process. Thematic analysis of student reflections and interviews found students view…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Service Learning, Critical Thinking, Community Organizations
Schuhart, Arthur – Inquiry, 2014
This article introduces a new course in the Virginia Community College System English Curriculum, "English 114: Scientific Writing." The article briefly reviews the concept of "science rhetoric," then discusses the intended audience and purpose of the course, and explains the basic goals of the course in relation to the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Science Instruction, Writing Instruction
Marquez, Loren – Across the Disciplines, 2015
Just as WAC pedagogy and writing studies both stress the ways that writing and communication practices can act as both heuristics and products of genre-based, discipline- specific knowledge, in much the same way, performance, too, can be used as a heuristic and as a product and should be more fully explored in WAC theory and pedagogy. This article…
Descriptors: Performance, Interdisciplinary Approach, Heuristics, Writing Across the Curriculum
Zuidema, Leah A.; Bush, Jonathan – English Journal, 2011
In this article, the authors focus on the decision-making process that goes into professional writing and ways to emphasize ethical decision-making in writing classrooms. Professional writing has at its core an emphasis on action and audience. Certainly teachers want their students to write effectively--to serve their clients, organizations, and…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Technical Writing, Business Communication, Decision Making

Pelkowski, Stephanie G. – Composition Forum, 2000
Argues that writing teachers ultimately need to view their prompts rhetorically. Argues that writing teachers should consider carefully the role that students have as audiences, writing audience responses to teachers' texts through their essays. Argues that a rhetorical analysis of the prompt will help students criticize the cues of a real-world…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Student Role
Addison, Elizabeth – 1991
After several years in academic public relations, a professional writer returned to teaching composition. After her first attendance at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, she experienced a turning point in her view of "the essay." Following the conference, she changed her assignments from…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement
Johnson, J. Paul – 1992
According to a recent article by Richard Fulkerson, there is some consensus among those who teach writing about what makes writing good. Apparently, a growing number of writing instructors' aims constitute what Fulkerson calls "rhetorical axiology." Rhetorical axiology is a belief system in which teachers value highly "overall…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Higher Education

Oliver, Eileen I. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1995
Reviews a study examining the influence of rhetorical specification in writing prompts on the writing quality of 7th-, 9th-, and 11th-grade students, and college freshmen. Analyzes the main and interactive effects of topic, purpose, and audience on writing quality. Indicates that students use different kinds of rhetorical information at different…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, College Freshmen, Developmental Stages, Higher Education
Chappell, Virginia – 1990
The library can assist in grounding college student writing in reading and inquiry rather than in the mere retrieval of information Fundamental rhetorical goals can best by met by getting students into the library to ask questions, analyze sources, and evaluate claims so they can react to and incorporate the work of other writers into their own…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Discourse Communities, Discourse Modes, Expository Writing