 |
| The brilliant Richard Feynman, who always kept his audience in mind. |
Monday, August 27, 2018
Narration/Scholarship Essay blog task—due November 29
How do you keep your audience in mind when composing essays? What do audiences expect to see in narration essays? Who will read and reward your scholarship essays? Reply with 150+ words.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
101 comments:
Postma 1
I prefer to keep my audience in mind when composing essays; therefore, I take great pride in the fact that I recognize my audience may not understand the subject I am talking about—such as Fortnite—and that I briefly explain certain terms and other terminology. Luckily, adept and well-versed in the technical language of gamers is Matthew Christensen—making it much easier for him to understand my essays and requiring less clarification on my part. The people who read my scholarship essays, however, have zero interest in gaming and I must recognize this. Carefully boasting my accomplishments academically and in activities is what must be done on my part to get what I desire: free money. In order to prove academic excellence, prowess, and thoughtfulness are traits I possess, I must craft essays tailored to display the best of my ability—any less than that is a reduction of my abilities in their eyes and a possible destruction of my financial incentive to create the essay. Why would somebody create an essay not tailored to their audience? Such an act would prove the writer obtuse in the act of writing and, frankly, communication itself. Write for your audience!
Ask 5
While composing my essays, I keep my audience in mind in multiple different ways. One way I keep my audience involved is to know my audience and who I am talking to. If I am writing to a younger age group, I will not use very sophisticated words but if I am writing to a professor, then I will use more challenging words to make myself sound more knowledgeable. Another way I keep my audience in mind is when I decide how long my essays are. If I am composing an essay to gain a scholarship, I keep the essay concise and to the point while if I am writing in English class, I make sure I cover all the point on the rubric. The final way I keep my audience in mind is to make the essay entertaining. No one wants to read a boring essay so if you make it a fun essay not only will your teacher give you a better grade but the essay will be more enjoyable for your audience. An audience expects to see a lot in a narration. They expect to see a fun and enjoyable story that has a lesson at the end of the story so the audience will not do it themselves. The final thing that the audience expects to see in your essay would be proper format. The people who read and reward my scholarship essays are usually everyday business people who have a job and have to read the essay in their free time. That is why your scholarship essay needs to cover the questions in a concise but educational manner.
Graber 7
Keeping your audience in mind when composing essays is crucial. I am writing scholarship essays. When writing these I need to be very formal (or informal) depending on the essay topic. These essays determine the amount of out of pocket cost my parents (and eventually myself) will be paying. College is very expensive already so any money is helpful. Very prestigious people will be reading these essays determining how much money I should receive. They will be looking for intelligence and diversity. I need to prove to them that I am an experienced writer, and I know how to compose a good essay. Also, I need to set myself apart from other applicants. I need to be different and show them that I deserve the scholarship more than the other applicants. Knowing who your audience is something you should keep in mind no matter what the essay is. Think about who is going to benefit from your essay. Think about who is going to learn from your essay. Care about your audience.
While composing my essays, I keep my audience in mind in many different ways. One way I keep them in mind is when I am figuring out who I am talking to. Age is a big factor when keeping audience in mind. If I am talking to a younger age group I will not use as many big words and try to keep their tone of voice in mind. But, if I am talking to an older group as an audience I will use much larger and sophisticated word choices. Another way I will keep the attention of the audience is by making sure my essay is a preferable length. Some scholarship essays for example have a maximum length and a minimum length. When writing these I try to keep them in the middle with my amount of words or pages. If an essay is too lengthy per say you will eventually lose the attention of the reader. I like to keep my readers interest the entire time I am writing my essay, so I keep them at a decent length. This is why my scholarship essays are very important to me because I want to keep whomever may be judging them attention the entire time throughout it. Keeping an audience's attention and keeping a judge's attention is very important when writing essays for any type of circumstances.
Kellogg 7
When composing an essay, I prefer to build my sentences in a way so that my audience can easily relate to and understand what I am describing. I give examples of certain phenomenons that readers may have experienced themselves in their own lives. I enjoy using more complex words in an essay in order to make the audience seem intrigued and impressed with my flow of wording and structure. Instead of completing the narrative essay challenge, I chose to write 1500 words of scholarships. When my essays are read, hopefully by considerate people of power, they will determine whether or not I will receive money in order to pay for my future schooling. While composing the scholarship essays, I use a slightly different technique in writing. I will make sure that I do not have any grammar errors. I am aware of the amount that I talk about myself and how it will sound to the reader. I carefully consider every word that I put into my essays.
Kocer 7
When composing an essay, you should always keep your audience in mind. The level of vocabulary will depend on your audience's reading level and the type of essay you’re composing. If you are trying to reach children, you will want to make sure you’re writing material they are able to read. If you are writing a more formal essay you will want to use bigger, more sophisticated vocabulary. Since I am writing scholarship essays, I will definitely want to keep my audience in mind. The people reading the scholarship essays will have a high education level so I will need to make sure to use proper grammar and good vocabulary. I need to set myself apart from other applicants through my essay while still showing I am a skilled writer who can compose an essay. I will need to make sure my essays aren’t redundant and too long for the reader. You should get your point across concisely and to the best of your ability.
As I compose my essay I keep my audience in mind by creating vivid pictures in their head. I hope to accomplish this because although the reader did not experience the same event, I want them to feel like they did. I hope that they also learn from the experience I am writing about and remember it in their daily life. I feel like I can accomplish this if I describe the event and make it so they can see it in their head as I saw it in real life. In my narration essay I feel like the audience wants to hear an interesting story that could possibly be relatable to them. Although my personal story is not necessarily relatable, I hope that the mindset that I had before and after my event may be relatable to some. I also feel like people read narration essays to be entertained. I will try to do this by adding interesting styles of writing and use different techniques to make it a fun and enjoyable read for my audience.
When composing essays, I try to keep my audience in mind by telling the story so they can visualize the event and feel like they are experiencing it themselves. I enjoy movies a lot because you can see everything that's going on and see how the characters feel all the time; this leads me to try to write my essays to give my audience a feeling of watching it as a movie would. Audiences expect to see a lot of details so they can fully understand the situation. They might also expect suspense and changes in writing to keep them interested in the story. The people in charge of reading scholarship essays at colleges are very intelligent people who have high expectations since they are awarding money to the best writers. The goal of the writer is to stand out from the rest of the composers in order to gain the most money possible, making their college easier to pay for.
2 Reinschmidt
When composing my essays, I keep my audience in mind throughout the whole essay. I try to make my sentences relatable to students/teachers that will be reading them. I also try to make the length and classification of my sentences different throughout each paragraph to mix it up and have a variety. If my essay is for a younger group of students, then I will not use the intense vocabulary that I use in my more professional essays like the scholarship ones I have been writing. It is important to know who will be reading your essay so you can write it in a way they will understand. I think audiences expect to see a variety of different things in a narration essay. I believe that they expect to see a lot of detail such as imagery and very descriptive worlds to allow them to picture themselves in the same situation. The fun thing about narration essays is that you, the author, were the only one that lived it exactly how you want to write it. This gives you the opportunity to allow any future readers to put themselves in your place for the time they are reading your essay, and it gives them the ability to learn the same lessons you did. For an audience to be moved by a narration essay it has to speak a valid point and prove an important life lesson. A narration essay is supposed to teach the reader a lesson, and that is exactly what the audience is expecting they will get from reading it.
When I compose essays, specifically the current Narration essay, it is imperative to keep in mind the type of person or people I am writing to. Marching band, the theme of my Narration essay, is a very unfamiliar topic for most people. It is crucial, therefore, to be minutely descriptive of every detail in the narration of the event. Even if I were to write on a topic that is more familiar to the general public, such as a televised NFL football game, my audience has not had the same experience of that topic as I have. To meet my audience's expectations, I must make boundless use of adjectives, adverbs, imagery, and other highly descriptive phrasings. As Mr. C put it, "make them smell it." An audience member, when listening to or reading a narration, expects to be carried away so as to feel the author's feelings and be enveloped in that moment, nothing less.
When I compose an essay considering the audience is important in all aspects. The first idea in which to consider is the age group and demographics of your audience. Writing to a group of high schoolers, the teacher, or an essay that will be presented to sixth graders all promote different styles and word choice within. An essay that is for a grade and that will be peer edited and usually has better sentence structuring and word choice throughout the essay to produce a better grade and exhibit an intelligent person. Whereas, a less professional essay towards a younger group would be more approachable to their standards of English and ideas. Another idea I consider is making scenarios the most descriptive and comprehensible as possible. Creating a picture in mind where the reader can feel like they are experiencing what is being told is very important. The audience needs to understand exactly what is happening in the story; good word choice, sentence structuring, and expressing ideas clearly and logically is what I consider when thinking about my audience.
Bickley Pd.5
When composing an essay, it is very important to keep the audience in mind. In doing so, it ensures that the topic being addressed is reaching the appropriate readers. Also, vice versa, the targeted audience affects the topic in which the author writes about. Identifying your audience prior to writing helps you create a topic, choose proper lingo, and format appropriately. Audiences expect the first-person point of view in narration essays. A narrative essay should encompass an experience told like a story in which the author recalls an event. Often times this event can be of a learning experience. Audiences will look for first-person pronouns, setting and plot, conflict, and relatable scenarios. In a scholarship essay, the organizations rewarding the scholarships will be looking for unique responses, relevant topic choices, proper grammar usage, etc. You want to “sell” your knowledge to the organizations in which you are writing to show them that they would be lucky to have you on campus, or as a scholarship award recipient.
Frantzen 5
When composing an essay, whether it is a scholarship essay or a narration essay, I always try and keep the audience in mind. If you keep the audience in mind it will keep them interested, make your essay stand out, and improve your essay in every aspect. First, one must discover and learn who their audience is going to be. Once this happens they can develop a strategy to successfully get across to their audience. When a specific audience is reading an essay they expect to see something that makes sense. They do not want to read an essay that is boring, is too advanced, or does not pertain to them. If an essay is boring it would not be enjoyable to read for any audience. When an essay is too advanced for an audience it is not fun to read because they can not understand and comprehend the essay well. Lastly, if it does not pertain to the audience they will check out immediately. The audiences that will be reading our scholarship essays are people who are reading a lot of essays so you must keep it interesting and you must sound intelligent in order to catch the attention of the audience.
The audience is an important factor in the essay writing process. Who will read the essay determines the tone and word choice used throughout the essay. The tone of an essay should reflect how the author wants the reader to feel during and after reading it. For the narration essays, we should use an excited tone so the reader wants to keep reading. There should be a slight feeling of suspense as well and also strong ties to the lesson learned throughout the essay. Word choice is also extremely important. The language used in a children’s book would include limited vocabulary and lots of repetition. The sentences would be kept simple so children could understand. This would be ridiculous in our essays. The essays we are writing should be college level, with advanced and scholarly vocabulary. The sentences should vary in length and structure. I have been keeping the audience in mind by trying to tell an exciting story with interesting word choice.
Poppenga
Keeping your audience in mind when composing any type of essay is important for every writer. Learning and studying who your audience is whether they are old or young, professional, casual, etc. will help one better understand what vocabulary to use and how far they should elaborate into each topic. If a writer is bored by their own essay that is a dead giveaway that nobody in their audience will want to read their work. Making one’s essay entertaining can be a challenge, but it can be achieved. Using excessive imagery and descriptive words can brew an image into the reader’s mind so that they can be able to relate to what might be happening in the essay. Narration essays will be equipped with multitudes of imagery paragraphs because the essay is in the P.O.V. of the writer and in order for the reader to understand what the writer is experiencing, the writing must paint a picture in their mind. It is different for scholarship essays because they only want to see if you are adequate enough to earn said scholarship and keeping their attention at all times is challenging. Keeping an audience's’ attention can be challenging, but pays off in the end.
Ziegeldorf 2
When writing essays, I try to keep the audience in mind. I do this by appealing to the things they may like or are accustomed to. I always try to use eye-catching titles to grab the reader’s attention. I attempt to keep the audience interested by making the story more relatable in any way I can. In my narration essay, I plan on using a title that makes the audience interested and wanting to know more. I hope to make them curious. My essay is about how test scores do not define you. This is likely a relatable topic to many students. Overall, the audiences expect to see individuality from story to story. The audience will be able to view the different personalities and lives among students. They may even learn a thing or two when reading the narration essays, as the whole story leads up to a valuable lesson the author learned.
Erck 5
While composing essays, it is most important to keep your audience in mind. Each essay should be written in a way that can address the reader personally, and be academically appropriate for their understanding, as well. For example, you cannot expect a third grader to be able to read a research paper written by a medical school student. Being able to reach all audiences and keep them engaged in what you are discussing in your essay is a crucial part of writing. Also, unlike novels or books, the language that we use in our writing must be age appropriate for our audience; however, with novels, the author does not care as much about what their audience thinks or who it is, because people will only choose to read a novel if they think they will be personally entertained by it. Essays, on the other hand (almost always more than likely), have to be read for some sort of application, presentation, or grade. In narration essays specifically, the audience expects to be transformed into your story. They should expect so much detail and description that they feel as if they were at the event, and that they could tell the same story over, with just as much gust as the original author. By the time they are finished reading it, they should feel a connection to the situation or event that took place throughout the essay. When writing about yourself, especially in the case of a scholarship essay, making sure you are addressing the audience with class and appropriateness is critical. If you do not, you will not be taken seriously as a writer, or perhaps even as a considerable option.
2 Andresen
When writing essays it is so easy to forget who you are writing to and what point you are trying to get across to certain people. For example, say you are writing a scholarship essay, applying for a job, talking to teachers or bosses etc… it is important and most often times crucial that you stay on topic and make yourself sound like a qualified and well-educated person. Different audiences expect to see and hear different things in essays. Professional people will expect that use strong word choice and have perfect grammar. On the contrary, if you are writing for a group of kids it is not as important. Kids are more interested in the content in the essay rather than the format and how well it is put together. The people reading and rewarding essays are well trained and very highly educated people. They have more than likely read several essays and know what they are looking for when picking out the winners of each essay. Writing good essays could potentially save you thousands of dollars which is very important.
The way that I keep my audience in mind when composing essays is actually after the essay has already been written. The way that I do it involves me writing the entire essay and during the phase when I am going through the entire paper, I will consider what the reader will think and if I am overstating something or if something just does not make sense to read. In all actuality, I just let the words spew out onto the page from my brain not really thinking about anything but the topic, what I have yet to write, and when the paper is due (for extra motivation). Thus far, this system has worked for me, and I believe that I have composed essays that have been enjoyable to read. I really do not know if anything that I have written is interesting to other people because I do not know what kinds of interests people my age have any more, but the topics have been interesting to me, so I try to write to appeal to me rather than to my audience. I am in the mindset that if I am able to read my own paper and enjoy it, others will be able to enjoy it.
When I write an essay, I try to first lay out all of my ideas, for the whole essay. My rough draft generally will not contain as many details and literary devices because I am in the process of figuring out how I want to tell the story. After I have developed all the main points in my essay is when I start to keep my audience in mind. I go back and add in details and exciting sentences that will pull the reader in and keep them guessing. I also go and put more literary devices in to make it a more interesting read. I try to develope my symbols even more to add more ah ha! moments to my writing. When reading a narration essay, audiences expect a story to be told, but also to be intrigued the whole time. They expect detail and on the edge of your seat moments.
DeWitt 1
When I compose essays, I keep in mind what words would attract readers. I make sure that my title and starting paragraph draw the reader in and make them want to read on. I read over my essay and make sure that I want to continue reading and that the story sounds as interesting as possible. With narration essays especially, readers want to be hooked from start to finish. With a narration of only a short period of time, writers want to make sure that the stretched out story doesn't seem stretched out to the reader. The reader should be able to feel like the time that this event happened is longer than what it actually was. For my story, the events that took place happened within a time frame of about 5 minutes. I want to make sure that my readers don't feel that my 5-minute story is stretched out to try and fit 6 pages. If my story does not play like an action movie in their head, I have failed to compose a good essay.
I think about the audience all throughout my writing. When I am composing my essay, I read through it in my head. That way, I can hear if something sounds off or too wordy. I think to myself "Is this a story I would read? And if not, what would I add or subtract to make it better?". I think this applies best to narrative essays. In other instances, like scholarship applications or informative essays, I try to add more facts and intellectual aspects to my work. Keeping the audience in mind is crucial to help you write the specific type of essay you are trying to compose. Scholarship applications and resumes are probably going to be read by professors or a committee of board members so I would want that essay to be more formal and intelligent. Narrative essays are directed to a vast amount of people with all sorts of intelligence levels so that essay would need to be less formal and more attractive to readers. Keeping your audience in mind will greatly help composers perfect and improve their works.
Rima 1
When composing an essay, I keep in mind that my audience wants an ending. Even if they may think they want a happy ending, all they truly want is an ending. Something that can make them feel as though the story they just read had a point; that it is not a waste of time. I also believe that my audience wants to feel as if they are there. Like they had gone through the same experience. I hope that when people read my essay, they feel some of what I felt, and feel that they can hear what I heard, and how both of those things have shaped me as a person. I also think that anyone has the chance to read any essay. Stumbling upon a work of art and getting the chance to read it is something that happens to all of us often. I think the way they reward my essay is just by taking the time to read the entire thing. They don’t need to like it, or even give it an A grade. I think having someone read your story is the real reward.
When writing an essay thinking about the audience is one of the most important parts of the task. You must think about ways to keep them interested and not lulled to sleep by your work. You must use strategies to get your point across to the audience. Just because you understand what you are typing up doesn’t make it a universal understanding to any reader. You must make sure your writings are universally understood by the audience. The audience is also the judge on how good your essay is. You may think you did a good job but ultimately it's the opinion of the audience that counts. So you want to take your thoughts from your head and put them on the screen or paper in a way that is appealing to the audience you are composing for. My scholarship essays will be read and evaluated by certain people with the position to judge me and my work. I have tried to write my essays in a way that will interest and entertain the judge rather than bore them.
I keep my audience in mind when writing my essay in many ways. I always make sure that my essay makes sense for anybody to read. I do not limit my essays to certain people. I always make sure my format and sentences make sense. Audiences expect to see certain things in narration essays. They expect to see creativity and a good flow in your story. They want sentences that contain a unique structure. You do not want your audience getting bored reading your essay. My teacher will read my scholarship essay and I will be rewarded if I meet his certain requirements. If I send my scholarship essay out to official people to review my essay then they will get to critique it. If the people think my essay is good enough then I will be rewarded with scholarship money. A lot of ideas go into essays to make them great whether they be a narration or a scholarship essay.
When composing an essay, even in its infancy, it must be remembered to whom the piece of literature is pertaining to. I personally keep the audience in mind and include them in my writing by using words and phrases that the chosen audience can most likely relate to. For example, if my writing is most likely to be read and observed by individuals younger than I, I choose not to use many historical references for fear of this being confusing to the reader and therefore lost within the depths of my essay. Likewise, it would not be the best use of my critical thinking to choose to implement a phrase associated with the younger generations in an essay that will most likely be interpreted by an older audience. Again, this generation gap plays a large role when constructing essays, because one must be able to relate to their reader in order to leave an impact, which is every writer's hope. Because I have chosen to compose a story narratively, I must include active voice and should strive to create an image in the reader's mind so they can relate and feel my experience along with me. My hope is that by the end of the narrative, readers will feel closer to me as the author, and will be able to relate my experiences to some they have had in their lives as well.
Kolbeck 1 (Scholarships)
I am submitting a variety of essays to a variety of people. The majority of my scholarships will come from the University of South Dakota. I applied there and was accepted and recently applied for the student scholarships. I had to complete two small essays, regarding my academic history and a time when I met a person of a different cultural group. These essays will be viewed and judged by a panel of USD faculty, staff, and a select number of students. I am also applying to a substantial amount of other scholarship opportunities as a way of getting the maximum amount of money for my college tuition. I do not know who exactly is reading my essays. I am hoping that the ones who do are fair, impartial, and give me the scholarship. While I cannot know who is evaluating, it is safe to assume they are a group of experienced and tenured officials who possess a post-secondary education.
Christensen 1
When I am composing essays, I think about what students like myself would want to hear. I always try to think about what teens today want to know and what they best respond to. I narration essays, audiences expect to see details. They want to be impressed by the vividness of your story. Your story should be vivid enough so that your audience can picture the story happening right in front of them. Audiences also expect to be entertained by a narration essay. They read it so that they can either learn something new or just for fun. Scholarship essays are a little different. Your audience is not teenagers but, instead, a panel of professors or the head of a company. With your scholarship essays, you also have to use your vocabulary to the best of your ability. Big words and vivid details will impress these professors and help your essay stand out amongst all of the other essays that they have to read.
I try to keep my audience in mind by keeping my writing interesting. If can engage the reader, it won't feel like they have been reading my essay for a long time, because they actually want to read the rest of it. I can either keep my essay interesting by doing obvious things, such as making an interesting story with more intricate details, or I can do subtle things like changing the way that I form my sentences. An audience would expect to get personal pieces of information that they woulnd't otherwise get if they were observing the event. The audience wants to know what was going through your head, why you did what you did, they want to see the event through your eyes; they very well could have already witnessed the event that you were writing about. However, when you tell the story through a different perspective, that makes it all the more engaging for the audience/reader. Because people have only experienced events personally, it is interesting to think about what they would have done in a situation, and what the author did.
The type of vocabulary I use when composing an essay depends on the age of the audience I am writing my essay for. For example, if I am writing a story for younger children I am going to use very small words such as “they went on a trip” instead of saying “they went on a grand peregrination”. Younger children are not going to have a clue what peregrination means, but older kids and adults might. I expect my audiences to see a story develop in a narrative essay, I want them to be able to picture my characters and the places my characters are. Not everyone will want to read what I write because not everyone is interested in the same things or experienced the same things as I have. Readers want to be able to relate to what they are reading and if they can not relate to what I am writing they will probably lose interest. However, those who can relate and are interested in the scholarship essays I write are more likely to reward me with scholarship money.
When writing an essay, you always need to keep your audience in mind. You have to think about what ages you are writing to and what appeals to them. For example, if your directed audience is younger kids you do not want to use a ton of big words that are not in there vocabulary because they will just get confused. If you are writing to adults you might want to expand your vocabulary and make yourself sound sophisticated and mature. Making your essay interesting and grabbing the reader's attention throughout your essay is also very important. I believe that if you are reading through your essay and it is boring you, your audience will be even more bored with it. Using setting, imagery, and characterization are all key tools in making your essay captivating. While writing scholarship essays your audience will most likely be adults. Using proper grammar and sounding mature is definitely something you need to keep in mind, but keeping them interested is most important.
Olivier 1
The things that I keep in mind when I am composing an essay of anytype is the type of audience that I am attempting to appeal to. Although, I usually try to just appeal to everyone with my writing. In a narrative essay, the reader expects to see aspects of a famous writers composition in your writing, they expect you to write with their writing style and techniques. In order to keep the audience in mind, I try to appeal to their wishes about writing like a famous author. I try to invoke a sense of friendship when I am writing a scholarship essay to try to make them more appealing to the college board that decides whether or not I will receive a scholarship. The professors of certain majors with pick out the scholarship essays that they enjoy and move those to the more superior professor until there are only a few elite essays to be chosen from.
I try to think about the expectations of the audience depending on the topic of my essay. When I read essays personally my standard for content changes depending on what the author is writing about. So if the essay is informative my main goal is to teach the audience about my topic, but not make it really boring. The entertainment value of the writing isn't my first priority. Specifically for a narration essay, I would attempt mostly to entertain because that is what I would expect if I was reading a narration essay myself. My scholarship essays will be read by people that are older and expecting a lot more from my writing. In this class, my fellow students are reading my work so they don't worry as much about the writing, but the people giving away scholarships do. They are giving away real money. So they are looking for intelligence and originality. Because they have to read so many papers, making mine unique would better my chances of earning money from them.
While I write my essays I always try to keep the audience in mind. The age of the audience is very important. If children were reading my essay I wouldn't use large sophisticated words they don't have knowledge of yet, because they won't be able to comprehend or relate. It would be like reading out of a textbook for them and that is not enjoyable. I am writing my scholarship essays and I always have the kind of people that will be reading these essays in mind. Scholarships are competitive; therefore, I should be using more vocabulary and proper grammar at all times. The goal is to impress the reader with your knowledge and hopefully win that scholarship money. I have been to many schools throughout my lifetime due to moving so often. In every school, there has always been at least one teacher that has told me that even one grammatical error on a resume or scholarship the person will stop reading it and move on to the next person. Always keep in mind the purpose of the essay and who will be reading it.
Betanzo 1
I believe that it is crucial to keep your audience in mind when you are composing essays. Audiences want to see your talents when it comes to how detailed an essay is. They like to judge you on how well your essay flows, grammar is used, and if your thesis statement is connected to the rest of your essay topics. For teachers or professors, they might want to see if you meet all the criteria when it comes to your final draft of an essay. Did you meet all the requirements in your essay? Maybe you accidentally forgot to cite a resource in a quotation? If you’re trying to compose an essay for a younger audience, maybe you shouldn’t use words that make you seem so elegant. I also believe that you should try to keep your essay as interesting as possible. There may come a time when you have to write an essay that has to be mainly factual. That doesn’t mean you can not add your own flare to it as well to make it less long and dreary. When I compose essays, I try to use interesting adjectives to make the essay sound more fascinating. Lastly, I believe that many scholars, who have been educated in the field of what my scholarship essay is about, review scholarship essays and decide which one meets the criteria the best. They want to see if students are putting the time and effort to win the money that is provided.
Ackerman 2
I keep my audience in mind while composing essays in array of different ways. While composing essays, I understand that my reader may not fully comprehend the topic I am discussing, so I like to take the time to explain what I am writing. I also like to keep the essay interesting with either literary devices or comedy. I think this keeps my readers intrigued by the essay and also makes them keep reading. In narration essays, audiences expect to see a story, start to finish, without much interruption. Some readers may like to get straight to the point while reading, and others may just want to take their time reading, therefore, there has to be an equal distribution between the two. May people may read an essay composed by a student in this class, specifically. For example, we have the option to read sample essays throughout the entirety of this class. Whether we are starting a new essay or simply need ideas for one we are currently working on, we always have the option to read sample essays that are provided in the folder given to us. For scholarship essays, they are read by the business or school giving scholarship money. They are analyzed and depicted to decide which student should receive which amount of money and then that same business or school rewards that student for their hard work.
Keeping the audience in mind while writing an essay is a major factor. If writing to children, you don't want to use big words that they don't know or have a topic that bores them. As the audience grows older, you can start to put in more complex words. Narration essays are about telling a story that happened and an audience would expect to read a moment that is funny or sad or interesting. They don't want to hear a story about something that happens to everyone. It has to be a story that is unique and would never be the same for anyone else. When writing scholarship essays, you have to think outside the box and take risks because the worst thing that could happen is not getting the scholarship. The people who read the essays don't want to read the same exact thing over and over again by every high school student in the region. They want an essay that stands out and can remember when choosing the winner. Keep the essay interesting and put thought into it to make it stand out.
2 Swift
Someone who is reading someone's work wants to be entertained, wants to hear and experience something unique and impacting. As the writer, I try to ensure that I make the work as interesting as possible by injecting as many details as I can fit without rambling. By doing this it will make the reader want to continue to read out of enjoyment. Along with the details, I take in consideration the format. If I give the main point of the story too soon, the reader won't have a reason to continue reading. But if i delay it with some tension build up, the reader will want to read to find out the main point and will have something entertaining to carry them to that point in my writing. While incorporating these aspects for the reader in my composition, I also have to think about who is going to be reading it and what I want from them. If I am accurately aware of my audience then I can write the appropriate phrases to achieve my goal with that writer. For instance, when one is composing a scholarship essay they have to consider the audience and the prompt in order to appropriately right for their cause. Knowing your audience, what they respond well to, and your end goal is important to writing a successful and entertaining composition.
Law 2
During my essay I try to keep my audience in mind as if I were reading my own essay for the first time. I ask questions like does the story itself catch my eye? Am I illustrating a picture in my own mind? Are the words that im using broad in their vocabulary and flow well together? Asking myself questions like these will help the essay become more of a story and more interesting for someone reading for the first time. It has to be something that I myself want to read. I feel as I should expect nothing less than a well composed story with beautiful imagery being drawn. It is even more important to be writing about something that you as a writer deeply care about. In this case being an experience that has changed your life in multiple ways and has become a part of who you are. This narration essay should make the person reading your essay feel like they were in the same situation with the same circumstances standing right beside you experiencing the whole thing with their own eyes.
Brown 2
I keep my audience in mind when composing essays by thinking of who the essay will most appeal to. Most of my writings are composed to be read by professional people like college professors. They must be able to be understood by high school and college students as well. The language of the essay must be brought about to appeal to the audience that it is composed for. I keep this in mind by thinking to myself, “Is this appropriate for who will access this essay the most?”. I commonly find myself asking that question so I can remember who it is written for, and how I can most properly word myself to match the intended audience. The audiences I expect to see in narration essays are my classmates and the occasional person looking to read an interesting story. The wording and writing style must be done in a fashion that keeps the essay interesting because that is what readers expect from a narration essay. I believe that college officials will read and reward scholarship essays. The writing styles of those must match what they expect in collegiate level writing.
When writing an essay you have an idea of who your audience is. Knowing who your audience is can help you write in a way that the reader will understand what you are trying to tell them through the essay. If the reader does not understand what you are telling them they will just think that it was a waste of their time but if they learn something from what they read then they will be excited that they took the time to read it. If you are writing an essay to a second grader you will write it differently than you would be writing to a professor. When writing scholarships you have to consider the prompt and you have to consider the source, you would not want to write haphazardly and then expect you will be awarded the money from the scholarship, you need to write professionally because the person that will be reading your entry will only want to award the person with the most well written essay submitted. Scholarship essays need to be composed in a intelligent but concise way.
A narration essay is about telling a story that could be fictional or completely real events. The story could be about an event that impacted your life in a big way or the story could just be about a funny moment that you found interesting. But how do you keep the audience reading without boring them; I think that having someway for the audience to relate to the character is a great way to keep the reader enthralled. One way of accomplishing this is to make the main character a normal person with no particularly good talents. It makes the reader think, "Wow, I could be just like this character" without having to rub it in their face. Another way to keep the reader interested is to have good pacing. Most people think that bigger is better and in some cases this works; however, if you spend three pages describing an object like a cake then the reader will get bored and tired of reading the story. A good example of this would be the "Harry Potter" series. I personally haven't read the books but I have seen some of the movies and if the movies are like the books then I can tell that the books would be a good read. It constantly has more twists and turns that keep you on your toes and never has a moment that makes you want to stop. An essay shouldn't just be a boring piece of literature that you just throw together; get creative, find a new way to make your essay interesting. You may make mistakes but not learning from those mistakes is the real mistake.
Van Hulzen 2
Ultimately, your goal as a writer is to entertain, persuade or inform an audience. Therefore, pleasing the audience with a well-written essay is of the utmost importance. To keep the audience in mind and involved in the essay, one can utilize three tactics. The first is recognizing the attitude your essay needs to present and keeping it consistent. If your audience demands a professional tone and format, then the essay should be consistently appropriate, but still entertaining. If the audience does not seem to care for a professional format but instead desires it to have more powerful emotion or comedy, then the essay can be written with less interest in format and more interest in the content. The next strategy is to keep your writing in a consistent tense. If your essay jumps around from present, future, and past tense, then your reader may become confused as to where they fit in while reading the story. Lastly, your essay should be descriptive enough to where a reader can imagine the story themselves. A reader should be able to picture the setting, characters, and emotions in the story. They might even be able to include themselves into it. Audiences expect this kind of description, especially in a narrative essay. A narrative essay should tell a story with colorful description and entertaining detail. If this is not accomplished, then the audience will lose interest. When it comes to those who read a scholarship essay, there is no exception there, they still want to be entertained, moved, or persuaded. Using these tactics will allow you to write influential essays that involve the reader.
It is very important to keep your audience in mind when composing an essay. The age of your audience and the type of essay you are writing are vital things to remember as you are writing. If writing for smaller children, smaller words and shorter sentences are needed. However, when writing for an older more knowledgeable reader, choosing more advanced words and elaborate sentence structure is a better option. Instead of the narration essay, I have chosen to write 15000 words of scholarship essays so word choice and correct grammar will be crucial. The audience, in this case, is highly educated and will look for grammatical errors and proper grammar when examining my essay. I will need to read through my essay many times to and have it edited if I expect to receive any money for the judge. To keep the reader's attention, the length of the essay is important to consider. A scholarship essay shouldn't be too long as this will lose the attention of the reader and the significance or your writing. When writing my essay, I will be sure to control the redundancy and wordiness of my writing.
When composing essays, it is important to keep your audience in mind. The feelings and emotions we put into our essays are affected by who we are writing to. Writing to people who will read our scholarship essays will elicit a more formal, serious attitude. Writing to a group of children will draw out laughter and curiosity. Each audience is different and should be taken into account when composing essays. I think the audiences of narration essays expect a clear, flowing story that can be easily read that does not appear like a child wrote it. They should expect to see the author’s state-of-mind and emotions they attach with the real-life account they chose to share. Scholarship essays are often read by administration responsible for rewarding the money a student can earn. It is important to keep a positive attitude while writing scholarship essays because you want the audience to feel good after reading it.
Huntimer 2
Authors write for the sole purpose of their work being read. Keeping your audience in mind is a key factor for a great essay. Essays that have knowledge about the audience tend to be more interesting and easier to understand. For example, if you’re writing a scientific paper, your audience could be other scientist (possibly in the same field as the essay’s topic), scholars, and students. Writers should know the different situation when they should use fact and data or fancy language and unique sentence structure. When telling a story, like the narration essays, your audience wants unique and interesting ways of arranging sentences to keep them focused on the topic. When writing essays about educational based topics, the audience wouldn’t expect flowery language and extreme sentence structure. When students write for scholarship opportunities, your audience is a higher power willing to give you money based on your knowledge—so show off! When writing for scholarships, the author should keep in mind that the audience is looking for impressive writing techniques and structures. Writers educate people through their works, so the situation it falls under determines the essay’s worth. The writer, keeping in mind the audience, should write according to the situation. For example, sending a text to your friend would not be well composed compared to a scientific essay. The audience in a texting situation wouldn’t quite care if your punctuation is flowery; the academic professionals reading your scientific essay are mostly concerned about how your data is being expressed. Your audience determines the essay’s worth by deciding if it fits into the situation. The age, profession, academic level, and background history on the essay’s topic are all factors an author should always consider when composing an essay.
It must be kept in mind that the people who are reading your essay might have never experienced what you have. That is why it is important to be very descriptive of what your write. For example, in my scholarship essays, one of the prompts is asking for a time I learned about a different culture from someone else. In my essay I am describing the time that I went on a mission trip to Tijuana, Mexico, and traveled to the dumps to deliver care packages. I feel it is almost impossible to explain the absolutly rancid smells or depressing sights I saw from the poverty in the area. It must also be kept in mind that the people reading these scholarship essays are being read by college professors who will expect the best grammar and writing skills. Therefore, it is very important to be descriptive of what you are writing about, so that way, the people reading the essays will be impressed with what you have written.
2 Cushing
When composing essays I keep my audience in mind in a variety of ways. For instance, in the narration essay, much of mine is about dance. I understand that very few who read it can clearly identify which competition is which and how the anything works. So, to add clarity to my essay for my audience I take time to explain things I normally would not to a teammate. I talk about how in order to go to worlds, a competition of the best teams from around the world, your team must compete at several levels and receive bids to even perform on the world's stage in Orlando Florida. This is just one way I appeal to my audience. Another example would be scholarship essays. I try to keep the short and to the point. This is to keep the reader intently involved at all times because they have to read hundreds of essays. Where as in the narration essay I can take more time to explain myself and lead the reader to understand.
2 Grode
The easiest way of keeping your audience involved is to keep them entertained. If you have a bored audience, well, you will not have much of an audience at all. Audiences expect to see things they can relate to in narration essays. They also expect to see things that make the story more enjoyable. Whether this is great writing or a compelling story, they need to be pulled in to the story and enjoy it. When it comes to scholarship essays. The reader can not get bored. Keeping the reader compelled to read and consider your essay, you need to, again, make your essay not boring. This is tall order because the reader has likely read hundreds if not thousands of essays before yours so his boredom may be easier to reach than the reader of a story. The main thing to consider when writing many works is to keep the audience entertained and not bored.
Burchill 5
To keep my audience involved, I think it is important that they know who I am as an author, what I believe and my background so that they can understand why I write about the experiences and emotions that I do. I'm not going to straight up say who I am in the story, so I need to sort of create a narration character that reflects who I am and can adequately represent how I feel about my writing in a way that the reader can see. This character should also be able to motivate the reader about what they feel towards the issues or experiences that I may bring up in my writing. Motivating the writer to interpret for themselves and decide whether to trust my view on something versus the way that they might see things because of their unique background will keep them tagging along in my writing.
Keeping my audience in mind is hard when I am writing an essay. I struggle with remembering that someone else is going to read my writing, but it is important to keep in mind. One of the ways that I try to do this is by asking myself if I would want to read what I am writing. Would I be interested in the words that I have written down or am I just writing the essay because I have to. Continually remind yourself that someone else has to read what you have written can influence you to try and make your essay more interesting. It is also important to keep in mind who will be reading it, not just that someone will be reading your essay. Writing an essay for a science class is much different than writing an essay for an English class. Remembering these slight differences is important to keep your audience entertained.
5 Harvison
When writing a narration essay, I try to keep my audience in mind and remember that they did not experience the story I am telling first hand, however, the goal is to get them as close to that feeling as possible. I try to use words that are refreshing and not stale, words that will let them imagine exactly what is going on and paint a clear and entertaining story in their own mind. This is also what the reader expects when reading a narration, they want to be intrigued by the story and understand exactly what is being described, no one likes to be reading a story and get confused halfway through it. Using the first person, in my opinion, helps because when a reader reads the word "I" in a sentence they can visually imagine themselves in that exact same position as the author when they wrote the story.
Keeping your audience in mind is probably one of the most important aspects of composing an essay. You need to know who is going to be reading your work and what they will want to receive out of reading it. It is kind of like marketing. Companies have groups of people that they are targeting to sell to. They want to make their products appealing to that specific crowd. It is the same with essays. Making them appeal and interest certain audiences will help benefit them and you. Audiences expect to see basic storytelling aspects like plot, character development, conflict, climax, and resolution. They want to have an interest in what they are reading and desire to find out what happens next. Scholarships essays, on the other hand, are read by colleges, businesses, or groups giving out money for higher education. They usually have certain groups of people in mind for their scholarships and have requirements to receive them. If we learn to write to our audiences, then we can receive the benefits like being rewarded scholarship money.
It is important to keep your audience in mind when composing essays. For example, if you were writing with an audience of little children, you wouldn’t use large words that they wouldn’t understand. If you were writing a formal essay, you wouldn’t use slang or improper grammar. When writing an essay for a specific topic, every word is used to complete said topic. I keep my audience in mind with my style of essay and word choice. In narrations, audiences expect to be entertained. The story should keep a reader motivated to keep reading until the end. The story should also be full of details, so the reader can accurately picture what was happening in your story. The description of what happens in your story should be detailed, and laid out in a way that doesn’t confuse the reader. Scholarships are reviewed by professors and staff and colleges and universities. Depending on the scholarship, they could also be reviewed by business owners, or staff at large companies.
Larson 5
The audience is an important key when composing an essay. If you do not write your essay in the way your audience will relate, understand, or enjoy, then what are you writing your essay for? When writing an essay, it is important to keep in mind that your audience needs to understand what you are writing about and what side you stand on in a situation. Assuming your audience will understand is easily mistaken when composing an essay. Clearly stating what your essay is about and writing in such a structure will allow the reader to understand. It is also important to make sure you write in a way that keeps your audience reading. Nobody wants to read a story that is hard to stick with and ultimately makes your eyes close with boredom. Your audience expects to read your essay with grace and expects to relate to it. Anyone can read your essay but, it matters on who will be impacted by it the most.
Brummels 5
It is kind of a struggle when it comes to keeping your audience in mind. Sometimes people get too into what they are saying and start adding in little details that do not really matter or kind of get in the way. As a reader, that can get irritating. So as a writer, I try to keep that in the back of my mind: do not add random, extra information. As I reread or go over my essay, I make little notes on how to make something more interesting so people do not get bored while reading it. While writing from my point of view, I try to keep theirs in mind. If you know that a specific group of people is reading it, make sure to add in some points that they would feel connected to. If you add in things that other people can relate to, then the audience will like it more.
Poncelet 5
When composing narrative essays I try to make my story the most enjoyable and fun to read for whomever my audience may be. The essay needs to be fun and very entertaining and funny for the audience otherwise, if they get bored they are not going to want to sit down and read your story one bit. I believe audiences expect to see comedy, and lessons learned and thoroughly enjoy narrative essays. But, in order to grab your audience's attention and keep them entertained you need some comedic relief and funny parts to keep reading your hilarious story to keep them wanting to read more funny stuff. Also, in order to keep your readers entertained and informed your story can not be boring. It needs to be filled to the brim with action and great vocabulary word choice. If your readers are bored and there is not comedy your audience will get up and walk.
Laabs 5
I try to keep my essays intriguing for my audience. I understand that some parts to my essays may not be interesting for everyone so I do my best to make up for it later on with something that may be interesting for them. Writing and reading an essay that doesn't have good emotion is not fun for both parties. People compose to express a story and show what they know about it. People compose stories and then an audience comes to them, not the other way around. If an author is writing the way they like and are doing it to the best of their ability then the audience that enjoys that type of work will follow. An author should not have to change their style to appease an audience, it should be to appease themselves, to assure themselves that they are proud of what they write. Audiences expect to see their composer as themselves. That is why authors have different writing styles and people can analyze those. The audience finds how they write appealing so they follow their work and enjoy reading their books. The individual who reads and awards our scholarship essays will have read tons of them before and they will pick out those who stick out to them compared to all the others.
When I am composing essays I like to make sure the reader is given enough information. There is a fine line between to much information and to little information. If to much information is presented it gets boring. When there is not enough information presented or people use inside jokes it gets confusing. Assuming people understand can them feel bad about themselves or like you do not care that they are reading the essay. People want to be entertained, not confused or bored from the way information is provided. When reading the narration essays people expect to be entertained and learn a possible lesson. Then people are getting something out of reading the essay. If they get a laugh and lesson out of it, it is a win win situation. The point got across and the reader enjoyed it. That is the goal when composing a narration essay: for people to learn and enjoy being taught.
Keeping my audience in mind is very important, as it helps me avoid boring parts in an essay. While keeping the audience in mind, I try to explain what is happening in enough detail for them to be able to visualize what I am talking about. giving an audience a visual picture will help keep them hooked as well as help them relate to what I am writing about. Audiences expect to read a narration essay that has a good, descriptive story behind it. It the essay is dull or does not force them to keep reading, then they will not. That causes a bad narration essay. Keeping the audience in mind might stop me from writing about certain events, depending on what audience will be seeing the essay. Recognizing what audience you are writing to extremely helps when writing essays. While thinking of the audience, I try to make an attention-grabbing start to my essay, forcing them to keep reading.
When composing an essay it is crucial to keep your audience in mind in a variety of ways. The first way is to understand and recognize the level your audience is at. Such as, if you are writing a story that will be read to first graders, you must put vocabulary and sentence structure they will understand. If you are writing for a college professor, they expect very high level ideas, format, and overall construction in your essay. Another way to keep your audience in mind, is to know if your essay is formal writing, or a more relaxed story telling. It is important to know what your audience expects so you can deliver that and they will not be disappointed. When reading narration essays, audience’s expect to be able to fully understand and be able to follow the story. Your story must be clear in how it is written. Audience’s also expect to be entertained, because a narration essay is a story, so they expect an excellent story. A story must be captivating to keep your audience engaged throughout the whole thing. These are the ways you must keep your audience in mind.
It is very important to keep your audience in mind when you are writing. You want to write in such a way that people can understand, enjoy, and be transformed by your writing. Often times in stories, the audience expects to be drawn in and intrigued from the beginning. They want to feel like they are in the story and are experiencing the very things you are writing about, rather than them just reading it. When considering who your audience might be, you have to think of age, traits, and personalities that you could write more towards, and how they can read academically. You also have to think about what your audience wants to read; especially in scholarship essays or a writing assignment for a class. They are looking for what makes you different as a writer; what you could bring to the table if they accepted you to the college/institution or decided to give you money for your writing.
When writing a narrative, I’m always thinking about those that could be directly related to the story. And if they weren’t directly related, I want to give them as much information as possible so they can know exactly what is going on. I want to be descriptive enough where those that know the story might learn something new about it. I also want to accurately describe the event as to paint a picture for those that weren’t present for it. When someone read a narrative, they expect to be able to imagine if as if they were there. The audience wants to read every little detail and know exactly how the author felt throughout the entire story. Feelings play a very large portion in narratives and it is very common for those reading them to take on some of the same emotions. If you properly describe feeling sick, the audience should feel a little sick as well.
When composing an essay, it is very important to keep the audience in mind. The style of my essay is different for every type of audience. For example, when the audience of my essay is younger people, I will use less terminology and references. However, when the audience is an older group I will use many literary devices to relate with the audience better. Writing a scholarship essay would require a style directed towards an older audience, usually professionals. The evaluation of a concise essay with strong vocabulary will be much better than one the drags out the point and appears unknowledgeable. I do not want an audience to get lost in my essay, but I also do not want them to see something much too simple. Thinking about what sounds interesting and informative to me also helps me decide the direction of my essays. In narration essays, an audience wants to see detail, imagery, characterization, and active voice. These help the reader picture exactly what is going on in the narration and keep their interest in the story. When a story becomes boring, readers lose interest. Telling a first-hand account of an event requires great detail. The audience wants to be able to feel like they are actually witnessing the story. When composing any type of essay, but especially a narrative essay, literary devices should be emphasized to keep the interest of the audience.
When composing essays we must keep our audience in mind because they are the people interpreting the words that we write. In order to have a lasting impact on the reader’s mind we must put ourselves in their shoes and write what they would want to read. Writing is pointless if it does not make the reader think. In scholarship essays, we must convince the interpreter that we deserve the scholarship that they are proposing. Convincing the reader is very hard unless you are different than others. Sometimes thousands of people apply for the same scholarship and not all of them will receive it. In order to captivate the reader being different is essential. They will not bestow scholarships to kids that write the same things over and over again. There must be style and emotion within writing in order to show the reader that you truly care. Rewards come to those who put forth the most effort. Slapping sentences together does not put forth the effort that these reviewers are seeking.
I believe the number one thing to keep in mind with any type of writing is initially captivating the audience. If you cannot catch the attention of the reader, then they will almost certainly tune out or not even continue reading the essay. The creation a mesmerizing introduction, even if that is just a single sentence, can be the difference between a mundane essay and an enthralling one. Although, just because you have an enticing hook does not, necessarily, mean that you can rely on that alone. The purpose of an essay is to relay a message or idea to the reader. Without adding interesting details, whether that be a story or an otherwise overlooked fact, you may lose some readers’ attention. Your goal as a writer should be to keep even the most scatterbrained readers totally immersed as they are reviewing your essay. If anyone and everyone can read and retain information from your writing, you have done your job as an author.
I think it is important to keep my audience in mind while composing essays. I believe it is important to figure out who your audience will be when composing your essay. After you figure out who will be reading your essay, you need to use word choice that will allow them to understand your thinking. If you talk over their heads, they will likely lose interest in the topic you are writing about. This is why I like to try to make my essays interesting in order to capture and keep the attention of my audience. Because I am trying to make my narration essay interesting, I will have to cut out all of the boring parts out of my essay and only tell the parts of the story that are interesting to my audience. Audiences do not want to listen to stories that they have no interest in. I think audiences expect to see interesting stories in narration essays.
In my unprofessional opinion, the most important component of an essay to the audience is entertainment. Regardless of the quality of writing, a boring essay, devoid of any humor or enjoyment, will not be taken seriously by the casual reader. In academia, where information is king and nothing but straightforward analysis and conclusion are accepted, a lack of enjoyment is acceptable. The dullness this type of writing requires saddens me, but I understand its necessity. In contrast, a narrative essay is an ideal platform for fantastic witticisms and vibrant descriptions that make writing a pleasure to experience. If I can not find enjoyment in writing a story, how on earth will someone reading it be able to? Even if the audience does not expect an entertaining essay, the surprise of encountering a witty joke or clever pun in the midst of serious writing breaks up the monotony that often is associated with literature.
When I am writing essays, I keep the audience that may be reading my work in mind. I am especially doing this in the current narration essay that I am writing. I am writing about volleyball and I know not a lot of people know the things that volleyball contains. The skills, the plays, the pace, the language, the atmosphere and more. To be honest, most people think that volleyball is only a female sport but it isn't at all. Men can play volleyball as well but I personally think that women are better at volleyball than men. Keeping my audience in mind, I will take time and explain them in a few sentences what a certain play or term or call might be just so they aren't reading something with absolutely no idea what I am writing about. I also like to keep my audience intrigued by describing things very well by using descriptive adjectives and switching up my word choice. Readers don't like repetitiveness and neither do I so it is never a bad idea to mix things up and try new things in your writings.
Spencer 7
I keep my audience in mind when composing essays by adding emotion to the story, or at least trying to add emotion. I believe that audiences expect to see excitement and adventure in a narrative essay. The more adventure and emotions added into a story the more interesting it is to read, and the more audiences are drawn into the story a person is telling. The people who will read and reward scholarship essays may be teachers/counselors from or school, to the people who have created the scholarship themselves. It all truly depends on the topic, or where the scholarship comes from, to figure out who will read and award the scholarship. There are many different people, I am sure of it. They will do their best and choose the one whom they think deserves it the most. It also goes along with the narration essay because when composing a scholarship it is a lot like telling a story. You must explain with great detail what happened or why you are the most qualified. The more things and details added in will help them see through your eyes why you want/need the scholarship.
Johnson 7
When writing my essays I always keep in mind the audience that I am writing too. I do this because then I know what type of way I should write. Am I writing for scholarships to college? Am I writing for a teacher? Am I just writing for the other students in my class? I must consider these when writing because then my writing style will be drastically different. Also, I think my audiences expect to see dialogue, flashbacks, and what maybe I was thinking at the time and what I think about the situation now. By putting in my own flashbacks and dialogue it makes the audience feel like they know what my situation felt like as I was going through it. This gets to the point where if they closed their eyes they could almost picture exactly where I was and what I was doing just based off simple clues that I offer in the narration. Along with that, I think that readers expect me to not confuse them by jumping from present to past and that I should also stay with consistently past. I think that colleges will read my essays and hopefully reward myself with some good money that I can put to use so I can make it four years in college.
How I keep my audience in mind when composing an essay is that I try to not wander off and talk about topics that most people would not understand. Since the story is about me this tends to make it easy for the reader to get bored. So to keep the story interesting I have to describe the story in vivid detail. I try to make the reader feel like they are in the story with me like they were watching a movie of this story. This will make the reader stay in tune to the essay at all times. Audiences usually expect to see a lesson of the story or a moral because if there is not a good lesson than what is really the point of reading your essay. The people that will read and reward my scholarship essays are people that have great knowledge and have probably written millions of essays in their life time so they know who to give the reward to for the scholarship.
TeKrony 7
When composing an essay, you should keep your audience in mind. If you are writing to a younger age group, you should not use very complex wording. Whereas is you are writing to a teacher or professor, you should write to the best of your vocabulary so they can see your knowledge in your writing. As I am writing my narration essay, people will expect to have a fun and detailed story to read. If this essay didn’t have a lot of detail, it would be quite boring to read, and they would not be as focused throughout the whole essay. The people reading and rewarding my scholarship essays most likely have a high education level, but they will also be busy. For these reasons scholarship essays should be concise and to the point. Knowing your audience is very critical and could help you benefit from how you write your essay as well.
Peyton 5
I keep the readers in mind when I compose my essay by explaining things thoroughly. I know that not every may get what I am trying to get accross because people have different interests. My narration is about basketball and I know certain people know more about the sport than many others may know about it. For example if Evan Talcott were to read my naration essay and I would have described it how I know it he would understand it way more then someone else who does not play basketball. I think audiences expect to see a picture in narration essays. They want to feel all five of their senses while reading your essay. They want to be able to see, smell, feel, hear, and taste everything you do. It is almost like a simulation where they are put in your mind and see everything you experience in that exact moment. No one has the same perspective as you so you must be as descriptive as possible when describing things.
When composing essays, I keep my audience in mind by explaining things thoroughly and making sure to give them the full picture. Some things they may not fully understand or grasp the concept of. We all have different interests and hobbies, making it hard to know if someone reading my essay will know what some art terms are, or if I will have to explain them to fit the reader. In my scholarship essay, I am writing about something in my life that I feel my application would be incomplete without. And that is art. I am trying to explain and show the people who will be reading my scholarship essay about how much art means to me and the things I feel when I draw and create pieces of work. Some people may have never taken an art class, so I make sure to explain the different types of art there are whether it is pottery, forming and creating things with your hands, or drawing, using pencil and paper to create a visual masterpiece.
As I write any of my essays I am always keeping my audience in mind. I do this to compose my essay in the best possible way. If I am composing an essay for someone such as one that is going to judge my scholarship essays, I am going to use a wider range of vocabulary. I will also try to switch up the type and length of my sentences. Not only does this keep my essay more entertaining; but also, it shows and proves that I have an understanding of the English language and how to compose essays. When I am writing an essay that is directed towards a younger audience, I am going to watch my word choices; making sure I am not using an extensive amount of large words that would be difficult for them to understand. I am also going to maybe not use a huge variety of sentences; but instead, I will keep it simple and easy to understand for them. An extremely well put sentence that is rather long may be perfect, but to a younger audience they may feel that maybe the sentence is a run on sentence. In a narration essay I think an audience would expect to be entertained and never be bored. I think they also assume they are going to be able to feel the events that are happening throughout the essay.
Olthoff 7
It is very important to keep the audience in mind when writing essays. They are the ones who are supposed to be able to interpret to content so they must be able to understand it. For example, I will not use a lot of references or difficult terminology when I am writing to younger children. If I am writing to an older and more mature audience, I will use more references and literary devices to help them understand the content more thoroughly. When writing a narrative essay, it is important to keep in mind what the audience is looking for. It should start with an exposition which leads to the rising action. There should be a lot of suspense to keep the audience intrigued enough to keep reading. Then you get to the climax of the story. After the climax, you follow it with the falling action and the resolution to explain what happens at the end of the story and tie up loose ends if there are any.
Ellingson 7
When composing essays, I try to relate every situation to my reader. The way I relate to them depends on who the audience is. If I knew my audience would be a little kid then I would use fun, easy, and simple words so they can better understand what I am saying. For example, I would use a lot of onomatopoeia and personification because those literary devices seem to be entertaining and keep them engaged. Simple words would be used like enjoyed, laughed, and watched instead of appreciated, cackled and observed. I attempt to relate to my audience by being myself, someone who is just like them. I want to make my readers feel like we are alike in some aspects and different in others. My narration essay seems to be spooky. In order to keep readers reading, I will add comic relief and sweet moments. This way they will be on the edge of their seat and then they can relax and lean back.
Vogel 7
The way I keep my audience in mind while writing an essay is that I try to imagine I am speaking to them in person. The audience that reads a narrative essay they usually expect a fiction like story, where everything is emphasized and dramatic for the most part. When you are writing this narrative story you may expect it to be a story or tale like when using this writing style. Speaking to your audience in this type of essay you can do one of two things, either just tell them the story in a narration only way, making them feel like they are your main character or another character in your book. Another way to reach the audience is you just tell it story like, when this is done often times authors will write it like this but then suddenly use an aside on stage. An aside is when the speaker starts randomly talking to the audience, this is often used in plays, but can be very helpful device to use on a narrative to add extra information, thoughts, witty comments, and also makes the reader more enthused to keep reading. This is how I keep my audience in mind while composing essays and what the audiences expects to see in narration essays.
When composing essays to keep my audience in mind I regularly try to make my writing captivating and interesting especially in narration essays. If this was not done readers would never finish what they started reading. First thing to understand is certain events within narrations are able to be cut out because they lack importance or excitement. No one wants to hear about something bland; they want a spark of orginallity! As the author your job is to clearly establish significance without creating confusion or deliver pasioniate emotions to the reader otherwise its all just words on a paper, not worth anyones time. Also to captivate readers I include writing techniques that add to the complexity of a novel. I provide the reader with sensory stimulation which in-turn helps to indulge the reader. Great authors never stray away from stacking up the adjectives whether it be what the see or what they smell or whatever is similar to what they may be describing. There are plenty of other methods to captive and intrigue my audience such as framing devices (so it sticks in their head), foreshadowing (so they stay on the of their seat), and even themes that parallel with he real world (so the story has purpose); the list goes on.
Eifert 7
When writing an essay it is important to entertain your audience. Ways to do that is to draw them in at first with your introductory paragraph, and by have a decent title. If you have a boring or just plain title it is difficult for the audience to want to read your essay because they may just figure the entire essay will be just as mundane. By drawing the reader in the you create a sense of interest for them, and that will get them to want to read your essay all the way. You need to have a flow with your writing to, so make sure that words and sentences fit together like they were made for each other. Using descriptive writing techniques is very important when composing an essay, and not repeating the same words too often. Making sure you use descriptive words will help your audience understand what you are saying in your essay, and it helps them to get a clear image in their mind of what is going on in your essay. If you repeat the same words over and over again in your writing then it does not have a smooth flow, and this causes the reader to grow bored. What I am getting at is if you keep your audience in mind when writing an essay, then your essay will come out a lot smoother.
When composing essays the author must keep the audience they are trying to reach in mind. Anything from word choice to the formation of sentences will determine how each audience will react to your writing. In narration essays specifically, the audience will expect detailed descriptions of emotion and feelings as well as of the setting and time/place the event took place. Considering that the reader is not given any images in a narration essay, it is the author’s responsibility to build the image of the setting in the reader’s mind through careful attention to detail. The author must also be attentive to how they use their words to prevent the reader from losing sight of the main focus of the essay. Once an author trails off of their plot into a whole new plotline, the reader may find it difficult to pull themselves back into the original plot. Keeping consistency and focus is a key part of composing a coherent essay. Reader’s expect to be entertained when reading a narration essay. Whether it be a positive story or a sullen story, the audience reads with the intent of getting something out of your story.
McKellep 5
When composing essays there are many things an author must keep in mind in order to reach an audience. You can write boring essays that people will only look at but not really read. Why do that when you can beautifully create something that an audience member will enjoy? When doing this, an author must consider the type of audience they are trying to reach. If they are writing to little kids, then using very large words and language they can not understand will not benefit you at all. Then using bold and interesting words will keep your audience hooked. Also when telling a story, try to make it one that no one has heard before. If it is the same old story about how there are bullies in the school, then no one will stay interested for very long. I also think that having slight humor in the story will make the audience stay hooked and help break up the story if it is starting to get long. Varying up the types of sentences you have can also help keep it interesting. If you are telling the story to them aloud, grammar is not much of an issue; but if they are reading it for scholarly value, then making sure you have correct grammar and punctuation is imperative so they know you CARE about your writing.
DeCurtins 7
When composing an essay, you have to think of who your audience is. When writing to anyone, make sure you don’t use over the top words too much. Searching for many extravagant synonyms may make an essay unreadable and too much. You have to remember that you are speaking to people, not rocket scientists. Having a wide range of vocabulary is a good skill, but audiences would like to be able to relate. In addition, smart people have a tendency to talk down to others, not always intentionally. They need to remember to explain things in a coherent manner. In narration essays, audiences expect to see a first-person story with a moral. Narrations are either told for entertainment, to tell a lesson or both. There are many different ways to go about telling a narration, including humor, drama, poetry, and etc. Being unique in your style of writing tailors to an individual's story.
Glen 2
When I am composing an essay, there are a plethora of thoughts that run through my mind when I am considering my audience. After deciding the topic of the essay, I have to decide the type of style I want to focus on. With that style, I have to ensure that it is consistent throughout and that the audience will not become bored in the beginning of it. For example, I always put myself in the audience’s shoes, such as imagining how I would feel if I did not know what I would be reading about. This process helps me narrow down the different vocabulary words, sentences, thoughts, etc. while writing it. If I did not do so, I think that my ideas would not be as consistent and the audience members would become very confused as to what the main theme of the essay is truly about. In addition, I also consider the length of the essay, as well as including page numbers and works cited. Although these may be extra ideas, I think that those who read the essay pay close attention to it. I know if I had the option to read an essay, I would not want to read one that was more than eight pages and the introduction was not strong enough of stating what to expect throughout.
Bowar 5
When composing essays it is always important to keep your readers in mind. As a writer, it is crucial to have the understanding that a reader wants to be influenced and entertained. By involving lots of imagery is one way I try to involve the reader. By using imagery correctly the reader could feel as though they were there experiencing it for themselves. I also try to put myself in my reader’s shoes. When writing essays I believe asking yourself questions allows you to understand if the ideas in your head are transferring to the paper in an enlightening way. I always want the message to be clear but impactful and the sentences to be structured correctly without rambling. Having different requirements in our essays such as metaphors, allusions, author imitation, etc. we as authors are pushed to improve our writing by using techniques while still keeping our voice and making sure our readers will enjoy.
I keep my audience in mind the whole time while writing essays. I make sure that if my essay is going to be read by middle schoolers, then I will use easier vocabulary so that they are able to comprehend what I am composing. If my essay is to be read by elementary students, I will keep it short and simple because their attention span is very minimal. Making your essay interesting is what matters in each set of audiences. To high school teachers and professors, the best way to keep them intrigued is to use great vocabulary and grammar and describe such things in a way that the reader is at the edge of their seats. It could be as small of a story as getting a speeding ticket, but being descriptive will help keep the audience attached to your essay. In narrative essays, the audience expects a conflict and a happy ending. Narrative essays are so unique because every essay is different from one another. Each person composing a narrative essay has lived their own life and have had different scenarios throughout.
While composing essays it is very crucial to consider your audience and I make sure that I consider them in many ways. The first way would be keeping in mind who my audience is. Sometimes when writing essays for different age groups, I might need to change the vocabulary, especially for younger kids who don’t understand bigger words. Not only that, but if I am just simply writing for english it might be longer than if I were writing a formal letter because it is good to be concise in formal letters/essays. Another way I would consider my audience is to keep in mind on whether or not most of my audience will know what I am talking about. If the majority doesn’t know, then I would have to use much more explanation on certain things than if the majority did know what I am talking about. The final way I would keep them in mind is by entertaining them. No one would want to read a boring essay and I know that if I were in the audience, I would want to be entertained rather than bored.
When composing my essays, I keep my readers in my mind throughout the essay. I try to put myself in there shoes and compose my essay to try to make it more engaging for them. I feel like audiences expect to see an interesting story in narrative essays. I feel as though they want to feel engaged and interested the entire time and not feel bored out of their mind after reading the second sentence. I want my audience to feel like they were apart of the story and they can visualize the images I am trying to explain clearly and can sense the emotions I was feeling the day my story happened. I personally want to fix my sentences, making them stronger and more detailed with better visuals to help with this. Having a person like your essay is one thing, but having them love it is totally different.
Sonju 2
I always try to keep my audience in mind when writing my essays. Other high school classes in the past have helped me focus on this. For example, in biology, Mr. Lovrien makes us type all of our lab reports in a way that is concise so that professors do not get bored, but also thorough enough so that a person with any science background could perform the lab. This has forced me to think about my audience which then influences my word choice. When I write my essays for Comp, I keep the main goal of the essay in mind. For the causal essay, I wanted to be thorough but also easy to understand when trying to explain my points. For the narration essay, I want to paint a picture for my audience. I want my narration essay to be enjoyable for anyone to read, no matter the age or reading level.
1 Rau
Whenever I compose essays, I like to keep my audience in mind by the word choices I make, and the organization by which I give them in. In narration essays, although I am not writing one, it is important to explain your stories with great detail and fair wording in order for your audience to understand and visualize the scenes. Furthermore, with typical narration essays, story-telling and creative word choice are essential to capturing the reader’s attention. In a way, this relates to how I am trying to compose my scholarship essays. I need to stand out amongst the crowd and have a genuine purpose to my efforts, especially when my audience will be experienced judges who need to find someone worthy of the reward. So far, I have been speaking honestly and passionately about these rewards having an impact on my future dreams. In a way, scholarship essays require a level of honest persuasion in order to attract the audience’s attention to a certain entry. Without these composition skills, the probability of successfully acquiring the reward would be much less. Therefore, knowing the essence of a proper composition such as this, it would be a benefit for me to use these skills for my essays.
I keep my audience in mind in may ways when writing an essay. I try and make sure that what I am saying can make sense to anyone who is reading it. I also try and make sure that I am able to connect to them in multiple ways. I do my best to make sure that people can see my emotions when I am writing. I want them to understand how I feel as a person. I want my message to be clear. I want to be able to show anyone that they can feel just as passionate about the topic. I try and make sure that when I am writing I can be understood by someone who does not have a lot of experience in the topic. If someone who does not know much about the topic is able to comprehend what I am saying then I have done a good job in making sure I sent the message I was going for.
Knutson 2
When composing essays the easiest way to keep your audience in mind is to make your essay very eye-catching. Making an essay very detailed and descriptive allows the reader to feel like they are experiencing what they are reading. As I was writing my narration essay, I included a lot of imagery within my work to give a mental image of the story. Reading is not always everybody’s favorite. Being able to create an interesting piece of writing can really grasp the reader's attention. Also, if you include a diverse vocabulary, instead of boring words that we use every day, can really add a lot to an essay. Knowing the audience you are writing to is very crucial when composing an essay. As we get older, being able to incorporate more elaborate sentences will be very beneficial. This will also attract an audience more to have a desire to read your work.
I keep my audience in my mind at all times when I am writing an essay. Firstly, I like to consider them when deciding how proper my essay should be. If it is addressed to a group of my peer or friends—when regarding a non-serious matter—I tend to be a lot more laid back and informal. I use slang and hip terms that I would normally use in a verbal conversation. But if the audience I am speaking to is formal I tend to be much more respectful and formal. For example, when I write a scholarship essay (unless you are to be deliberately informal) I come off as much more esteemed and more respectful. Another thing I keep in mind is how I speak to the audience. If I am trying to inform the audience about my topic I will be much more toned down and use simpler terms. However, if I am speaking to a very educated crowd I will go more in depth about the topic rather than the superficial parts of it. So I keep my audience in mind by either being informal or formal (based on the topic being addressed or who I am addressing) or much more informative based on how educated the crowd is.
I think creativity and relatability is a good way to connect to your audience. It is a good idea to keep your audience in mind when writing any type of essay, really. For example, when I was composing my classification essay, I had to be sure to explain each category thoroughly as it is a new classification system that no one else knows. Another example is when my partner and I were juxtaposing two different dance types: hip-hop and lyrical. Mr. Christensen, having a daughter that dances, knows very little about dance, but there are some people in my class that may not even know there is more than one type of dance. As for scholarship essays, the people who are reading it may not be interested in the types of dance, however, they may be interested in how many years I’ve danced. They are more interested in my academic and athletic achievements but I have to be careful about boasting.
Talcott 2 said...
I keep my audience in mind when I am deciding on what wording to use. I have to remember that not everyone is an avid sports fan like myself and they will not get all the sports terminology that I use. In this case, I have to explain to my audience all my sports terms so they understand my essay to its fullest degree. The audience expects to read narration essays that are excited and keep them entertained throughout the whole essay. The narration needs to be a story that the audience can picture happening in their minds. They need to be able to feel emotion and feel like they are with you doing your story. There are many different people that will view my scholarship essays from college professors to business owners. They will be people who have read thousands of essays prior mine. For my scholarship essay, I need to make it stick out from the rest of the essays so that the person rewarding the scholarship will be more likely to choose mine.
I keep my audience in mind a lot when I am composing essays. For example, I keep them in mind with the words I chose to use and the types of sentences. If I am trying to write to a young child I am not going to use big words, or complex sentences they will not understand. If I am writing to a group of people who are very smart I will use bigger words and more complex sentences. In a narration essay, an audience should expect to see a lot. They should understand the characters and settings without actually being there. They should expect to understand the story completely. It would not be a good narration essay if the audience did not understand what was going on. Scholarship essays are read by very smart people. They have high degrees and work for a college. They most likely will be a group composed of many different kinds of professors. You will need to show your intelligence while still thoroughly explaining they question that has been asked of you.
Eichelberg 5
When composing essays it is especially important to consider the audience of the piece. Writing for kindergarteners must be composed differently than that of a college essay. This task may prove to be difficult because the author must keep the reader entertained and avoid either overcomplicating or oversimplifying the essay to fit various audiences. When writing for an adult audience that is educated on the topic, one should consider using more complicated vocabulary and literary techniques to convey their stories or essays; however, if one is writing for an audience composed largely of children or less educated individuals, they should consider using words and phrases that will convey the same meaning in a more simple way that better suits the audience in order to keep them engaged. The audience reading my narration essay will be my teacher and other high school seniors taking college-level courses. Knowing this, I am able to tailor an essay to better suit my audience and keep them entertained throughout the entire piece. With this audience, I would be able to use more advanced vocabulary, confident that they understand the meaning or can interpret it using context clues.
Campbell 5
I try to relate to the audience as much as I possibly can. Another way I will keep the attention of the audience is by making sure my essay is a preferable length. I enjoy using more complex words in an essay in order to make the audience seem intrigued and impressed with my flow of wording and structure. Because I have chosen to compose a story narratively, I must include active voice and should strive to create an image in the reader's mind so they can relate and feel my experience along with me. If a writer is bored by their own essay that is a dead giveaway that nobody in their audience will want to read their work. Making one’s essay entertaining can be a challenge, believe that they expect to see a lot of detail such as imagery and very descriptive worlds to allow them to picture themselves in the same situation.
Kirkeby 2
For a narration essay, the author is telling a life story. In order to relate to the audience that will be reading said story, the author must know who will be the audience. For our narration essay's the audience will be our teacher (Mr. C) and potentially other high school students either this year or in future years if the essay is written well enough to be used as an example. Writing for high school-aged students is much different than for young children or college professors. In this case, the author wants to make his point clear but with a very good meaning behind it. As for writing for young kids, the author would have to talk down to their age and reading ability; the author must avoid long complicated words, and keep the story short and interesting as to not lose the attention of the reader. For a college professor, however, the author must convey that they know what they are talking about, they are also trying to impress them with their vast knowledge. For a high school audience like this, the author finds the happy medium and writes with better grammar than they talk.
While writing an essay, it is important to keep the audience in mind. Especially when writing an essay in the form of a narration. Why is it important to keep the audience in mind? Well, they are the people who the essay will need to appeal to. If you are not writing an essay to appeal to a certain group of people then there is no point in doing so. It is also essential for proper censorship in essays composed for a younger audience. If I were to write a narrative essay describing the gentle, kind life of a small, friendly dragon. It would not be appropriate to include an excessive amount of profanity due not only to the moral questionability of the content, but also the readers who would be taking that content in. Chances are, young kids will be most likely to consume content of a kind, gentle dragon. Likewise, it would not be appropriate to write about science fiction in a factual essay about microbiology. Situations such as these are perfect examples of how keeping the audience in mind is an important thing for an author to do.
Post a Comment