Audience Expectations and Teacher Demands

by John Hendricks, Robert Brooke, John HENDRICKS B.A. Ph.D.

The audience--the community of readers who will use the texts a writer produces--must be an important influence on the writer for his or her work to be effective.

Robert Brooke and John Hendricks examine the difficult task of teaching "writing for an audience" in a classroom where students know that the teacher, not the addressed audience, assigns the grade.

The authors describe in detail a particular writing class, taught by Brooke...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809315149
• ISBN13: 9780809315147
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"