journal 3 Sarah Wilkerson

I define audience as the people you are specifically writing or speaking too, or who you intend your writing to reach. Knowledge is information you have acquired over your life, or something a person personally knows to be true. These two terms are important for writing because everything you write is tailored a little differently for the intended audience. Relating to the activity, the audience changed the style of writing, an email to a professor is different than a text to a friend. Knowledge is important because you need knowledge or info on the topic you write about and also knowledge of the audience you are writing too. Estrem said writing is there to actually make knowledge and is both relational and responsive. Both articles point to the idea of the rhetorical triangle, which has the creation and interpretation from the writer, audience, and actual text. Since the audience is not actually present while writing, the author actually creates an audience. In Anzadula’s piece, her perception was that her language was different knowledge than other people had because it was not fully Spanish or fully English, but a more mixed language. She thought her knowledge of language was significantly different from other’s knowledge of language and her audience was one that could help people understand and sympathize with her hardships. Her text gave me a new understanding and knowledge of the cultural divide people who speak other primary languages have to face. Her audience could have been multiple groups and she allowed her writing to be emotional and hopefully give them a new knowledge of what she personally went through and knows to be true. After reading the three texts, my definition of audience and knowledge have changed. Audience is who you are writing too, but writing is relational and responsive, so the audience is in open communication with the author. The other thing I took away about audience is that since an audience isn’t physically there, the author must create an audience to translate the knowledge he wants to give. Knowledge is information you know already, but it can also be gained and discovered through writing. When we write, we often figure things and find new knowledge, which is a concept I never considered.