In Andrea Lunsford’s “Writing Addresses, Invokes, and/or Creates Audiences” talks about imagining your target audience. Lunsford says that times have changed and audiences may not be clear. Because of technology, we no longer have an audience right in front of us. Therefore, we have to create our audience. When writing you have to be very clear on who your audience is.
I do not believe that my previous academic experiences have truly taught me how to write to an audience. I never really focused on the audience. I always just wrote, as if I were the audience. My past teachers never focused on the audience, so I never had much instruction. The article helped me to imagine the audience, to better understand my target audience. I think that if I can start imagining who my audience is and writing specifically to the target audience is then my writing can become more clear and concise.
