I Know My Audience

Awareness of Audience and Voice

Tradition Discussion Board 2

            A piece that shows the awareness of my audience is the second discussion board from the tradition unit. Our assignment for this discussion board was to either affirm or challenge a popular assumption about pop culture. I chose to write about the assumption that “Pop culture and current trends challenge our long-held traditions and bring about change as well as transformation in our cultures.” I found this assumption to be true since pop culture is constantly changing and traditions change along with it. I felt that this piece showed that I was aware of my audience because everyone who pays the smallest attention to pop culture can understand what I am saying. Everyone knows that I am talking about in this piece because we see it all over the media and in our lives. I believe that my paragraph about the frequent use of plastic surgery and Botox to reverse aging is a good example showing that I knew my audience because most average Americans with an average income would agree with me when I say that countless plastic surgeries and Botox usages are a little over the tops to keep a young, fresh face. In this posting I chose to write about things that everybody knows about and sees in their lives. Everybody knows about cell phones, escalators and Botox. Everybody can see where I am coming from in my point of view from my writing.

            Since taking this class I believe that I have grown in my ability to write about topics that everybody will know something about and will be able to respond to. The blogs for each unit have forced me to grow in my ability to pick out parts of the unit and apply them to real life. Being able to apply things I’ve learned to real life has helped me to be able to speak to the audience better. As a reader, the public postings have taught me to ask questions and think about where the writer could be coming from and to find the writers point of view in their posting. My reading and writing abilities have strengthened because of the discussion board postings.