No! That is part of the idea of an audience. You have to formulate your information in a way that will be well understood and accepted. An 8 year old isn't going to understand the first thing about rhetoric. He or she may understand every sentence needs a subject and a verb, but not the purpose of persuasive prose and argument.
Now, understanding the audience will change according to the purpose of my work, I will be writing my restaurant review differently than my blog. This means my voice will have the same inflections and flow, but my scope and other rhetorical strategies will change. I will drop and add information, use more descriptive words rather than "good or delicious". Audience can help too, it can give focus and guidance to a writer who may be confused looking for what to write. Creating literature and other forms of media for the sole purpose of a single or group of receivers is certainly not easy, but necessary for scholars to honestly be effective in their work.
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Personally, I like "good or delicious," but you're right about changing tone for audience. You certainly appealed to our class audience well with the vending movie!
Well done Broha
You brought up some really good points. I totally agree with you about not really knowing how to write until senior year. No one ever taught me anything other than the 5 paragraph essay up until that point.
I think you're right about the fact that you can't teach an 8 year old what rhetoric is, but I wish teachers would have told us when we were in high school. it would have made this whole college thing a lot easier
Seriously...rhetoric? Who knows what that means? Haha just kidding. But seriously. I agree Leanna, we could have at least learned the definition before now. And I really haven't realized that we automatically and strategically have different styles of writing when we discover the audience we're writing to.
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