Ni 1 Nelson Ni Professor Padgett ENGL-1102 05 May 2013 Ooo This Is Interesting Ever pick up a book, flipping through the

first ten pages; you wonder to yourself Man this book is boring, going to put this book on the sleep on it list. Or you might run into a great book or writing, as you browse through the pages, every word grabs your attention as if you were a moth that is inching closer and closer to that bright red flame hypnotizing light. At that point you know that you have come to the right pieces of literary work, or good writing. However Good Writing covers such a broad spectrum of writing from the mundane textbook to the entertaining comic book. The Good Writing that will be covered in this piece, is the catering to a specific demographic of readers. We all have learned the general metaphor of comparing good writing to the building of a good hamburger: buns, toppings and the burger patty(ies). However just like the making of a good burger, its useless if the customer wants a pizza. Example, if your intention of this reading was to be the Modern Political Debate of Democrats and Republicans, then this is not the paper for you. This paper is supposed to draw readers that are interested in ideas and suggestion to improve their ability to write. In this excerpt from a handout by the UNC Chapel Hill Writing department: When youre in the process of writing a paper, its easy to forget that you are actually writing to someone. Whether youve thought about it consciously or not, you always write to an audience: sometimes your audience is a very generalized group of readers, sometimes you know the individuals who compose the audience, and sometimes you

Ni 2 write for yourself. Keeping your audience in mind while you write can help you make good decisions about what material to include, how to organize your ideas, and how best to support your argument.(UNC the Writing Center) Though the current audiences for this paper right now are college students and a professor of English, hopefully this work can become a source of clear direction for writers that wants to retain the audiences focus.

So what happened if the author has no direction in what audiences to attract? Or even
that they want to attract as many readers as possible? Then the notion of writing to fill the appetite of one specific group becomes more complex, because there is no easy one size fit all content. As Jack Jobst pointed out in his article A more practical approach to teaching audience is through a series of increasingly more complex assignments, beginning with relatively simple, easily-visualized readers, and moving toward audiences that are less familiar or more

specialized. (Jobst, 59) Essentially the writer should start off the audience with something easy
to digest or an overly general statement, such as We need to consume to survive. Though that is too general, but its able to establish a connection to the readers, and with what you are able to in a way put your foot through the door of their thinking. Since knowing the audience is a key factor in good writing, but could it become too much of a focus topic, that the writer loses all perspective of outside opinions that they are just becoming another instrument in repeating the same rhetoric that the audience wanted to hear? Students who write only for the teacher as examiner fail to learn methods of writing to other audiences (Jobst, 59). Here Jacks points out that because of how centralize the idea of the audience, the writer loses touch with their ability to communicate with other people of different mindset, it soon becomes too straight of a work that lacks creativity. To combat the likelihood of being a parrot thats repeating what the reader wants to read, the writer should switch it up a bit.

Ni 3 In Professor Padgetts English 1102 lecture, the students are offered a workshop environment by him, where they are able to exchange their writing examples to receive peer reviews. This way they are able to see different ideas and get a new perspective other than the professors. After acquiring the attention of the readers, a writer must demonstrate their knowledge of the appropriate language to use with his or her readers. The word usage should be adequately used to the level of understanding of the consuming party. As described by Blaise Cronin in Language Matters: There has been a striking increase in the number of submissions from the Far East in recent years, a trend that shows no sign of abating. It is thus reasonable to conclude that a majority of JASIST authors (both would-be and actual) are not native English speakers. In fact, many authors afliated with U.S. institutions are themselves non-native English speakers. As one who knows not a word of Mandarin, Japanese, or Arabic, I am mightily impressed by those who must switch from their mother tongue to write up their research in an alien language. I dread to think how editors would greet my work were I to write in either French or German, languages with which I once had some familiarity: I would certainly not want to be held to the standards I expect of JASIST authors. Having said that, readers have a right to expect clarity of thought and expression; they should not have to read and reread an authors words in an effort to extract the intended meaning. The reason that Blaise mentions this is because in JASIST (i.e. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology) about 50% of their content contributors are not native English speakers. Due to that a majority of their submissions from that group never gotten

publish and are rejected immediately. So beyond the initial attention from the audiences, one
must compose a writing in which it can be easily understood. In my experience as a non-native English speaker, I have trouble in grasping the concept of proper usage of grammar. The ability of using the correct grammar and sentence structures, it facilitate the readers experience on

Ni 4 comprehending your work. Think about it, you cant have a good writing if nobody knows what youre trying to say and there is a huge difference between your and youre. Even with the proficiency of the known language, sometime the audience still has a hard time trying to understand the definition of a word that an author uses in their writing. In the United States, when we used the word bum, were usually referring to a homeless person, but in the United Kingdom, bum could refer to butt or as vulgar as anal sex. Another English word that is different in meaning is fanny pack, in the US it means a bag that we carry around our waist, but in UK fanny means vagina, so even people with the same native language, they could still run into embarrassing moments in conversations. Besides the different definitions, the author should also try to avoid using abbreviations. Though readers can figure out what the abbreviations mean, but as an author, you dont want to have the reader spend his or her time on a scavenger hunt on your abbreviations usage, you want

them to enjoy or learn from the content of the writing itself. Here in this passage from one of my
previous works as shown: There he suffer a concussion and thus ended his career. During his 2nd tour of Iraq, his Humvee was blown up by an IED, he suffer yet another concussion and a completely broken right foot. Notice the term IED, to many people the use of this military abbreviation has almost no meaning to them, one way to correct this is by adding in a parentheses to explain the meaning of that abbreviation, like this (i.e. Improvised Explosive Device). Even though all English speakers share the same common grammar and such, a lot of times the author still shouldnt assume that everybody has the same meaning for certain words or knowing all the different abbreviaions.

Ni 5 Tips for Good Writing can come in many different forms, but only as a writer that puts it into practice can they produce a good work. In this paper I only cover one of the most basic parts of writing, the importance of knowing what the audience wants and would read. Though as critics question about the narrow mindedness of this topic of putting into appeasing the specific genre, only you as the writer can add your own splash of secret blends of herbs and spices to achieve a distinction between your work and that of another. Either to introduce newer ideology among the crowd or to challenge the existing beliefs, you must know where the entrance is at first.

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