U.A.I- Under Audience Influence

  You would not be a normal writer if you did not think about how your readers will react to your writing. Often times, that simple correlations leads to the change in the creative process and organization of writing.

  In my life, I have noticed that I always write differently depending on what situation I am writing for. When I write a paper for class, my professor is always the person I have in the back of my mind when I form sentences. I often ask myself, "Will they enjoy it?" "How will they respond?" "Will they be impressed?" This sometimes causes me to leave out or change certain parts of my paper to better fit the teacher I am trying to impress. It is worrisome to me that I am more of a sellout than I considered before.

Now, I am not saying that forming your writing to fit an audience is all bad. In many situations, such as writing a speech, it is most important to consider them first and yourself last. However, when speaking in a general sense, overthinking the reactions of the audience can cloud our judgement, and dirty our creative thoughts. Often times when this is the case, the writing that comes out looks more like a mass produced, cookie cutter, form of writing. Nothing unique. Nothing special. The handcrafted quality words that is only unique to you, are lost. 

Thus, overanalyzing the audience can be your destruction sometimes more than your tool. 

Comments

  1. UnknownJanuary 29, 2016 at 11:00 PM

    I can relate to sometimes overthinking and worrying on what the reader will think on what I write. However, I know that having confidence when you write makes the paper much mores stronger. Second guessing yourself, like you said, could lead to a paper that is not so well written but at the same time it is good to think about what you are going to write on your paper as well.

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