Annotated Research: Writing and Audience

Question: When, in the writing process, is the best time for students to focus on audience?

Answer: “Results among college freshmen indicated that attending to audience during revising was an effective strategy.” DH Roen. 1985. Pp. 204-205.

Comment: Drafts should be written quickly. Sharpening style, sentence structure, punctuation and usage, like concern for audience, occurs when revising the draft. RayS.

Title: “Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” JD Marshall and RK Durst. Research in the Teaching of English (May 1986), 198-215.