A Sense of Audience in Written Communication

Part 1 Historical and theoretical consideration: pre-classical roots of the addressed/invoked dichotomy of audience, R.J.Willey; the one and the many - a brief history, Thomas Willard and Stuart C.Brown; George Campbell's audience - historical and theoretical considerations, Stuart C.Brown and Thomas Willard; the writer's audience - fact or fiction?, Russell C.Long; one may be wrong - negotiating with non-fictional readers, Barbara Tomlinson; "An Eternal Golden Braid" - rhetor as audience, audience as rhetor, Theresa Enos; theories of the appellate court brief - implications for judges and attorneys, James F.Stratman; the concept of discourse community - descriptive and explanatory adequacy, Bennett A.Rafoth; audience and authorship - the disappearing boundary, Louise Wetherbee Phelphs; deconstructing audience - a post-structuralist rereading, Robert G.Roth. Part 2 Empirical considerations: evolution of scholarly forum - reader 1977-1988, Carol Berkenkotter; experienced writers' sense of audience and authority - three cases studies, Gesa Kirsch; ESL students' use of audience, Kate Mangelsdorf, Duane H.Roen and Victoria Taylor; socio-cognitive development, Janice N.Hays et al; rhetorically challenging texts, Peter L.Mortensen; facilitation of audience awareness - revision processes of basic writers, Donald L.Rubin and John O'Looney.