Abstract

FEW textbooks deal adequately with the writer's relationship to his reader; yet, many teachers recognize the need to encourage their students to write with a particular audience in mind. This necessity to imagine a particular audience begins at the earliest stages of pre-writing, or organizing one's general plans, because writing directed at anybody usually pleases nobody. The teacher who does not stress the importance of the audience is apt to receive essays from his students which treat him as a professional in one paragraph and as a foreign idiotboy in the next; such errors of inconsistency of tone, vocabulary, and approach can frequently be traced to the novice writer's inattention to his as-

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