In Andrea Lunsford’s, “Writing Addresses, Invokes, and/or Creates Audiences,” she talks about the most important features of writing which includes a concept called the rhetorical triangle. On each point of this triangle there is a different ideology such as the writer, the audience, and the text and these are what essentially mastermind the sense of writing. Lunsford continues on in her writing that even if you have no one there to listen to your speech, there are always the people that you can imagine and therefore you can regularly have an audience to help you portray your message.
In past studies where I was required to write an essay, I was always led under the assumption that I was writing with my teacher as the audience. By reading this article, I was able to piece together that my audience doesn’t need to be specific such as having a specific teacher in mind, but rather, it needs to be a group of people that I can imagine understanding the points in my writing and interpret it how I, the writer, want it to sound. My audience just needs to be a general community of readers. Imagining an audience can help people become better writers because it can lead you to articulate your points in a way that can be understood by all.
