Acknowledge your and others’ range of linguistics differences as resources, and draw on those resources to develop rhetorical sensibility.
One of the first things we learned in this class was audience analysis and why it’s so important to have an idea of who your audience is going to be. One of the reasons it’s so important is that you want to use the most appropriate language for that audience. You want your readers to fully understand and comprehend your writing, and they can’t do that if you’re not using the best choice of words for them. For example, it’s not the best idea to use scientific language when your primary audience is high school students because they’re most likely not going to understand what you’re saying. And in class, there was a huge difference in language when we wrote a scientific narrative versus an informative review. The scientific narrative had a more general audience so it’s best to have simpler language therefore more people can read it. But the informative review had an intended audience so you want to write using language that’s best suited for them. In my informative review, I decided to write to lawmakers so I used more professional language and higher-level vocabulary since it’s more fitting due to their profession. Another example could be this website right here. My intended audience is students and I want this website to be used as a learning source so I’m using specific language that I believe is better suited for students. In my head, I’m explaining concepts the way I would want them to be explained to me. It’s important to consider the language that’s best for your audience because everyone comes from different backgrounds and has different experiences so you have to think about the best way for them to understand your writing.
