Tonya Blaney On Reflection

The only way a writing has potential is to have an audience, without an audience there would be no point to a writing. The audience supports the writer to write, as much as, the writer supports their writing for the audience. The writer can target a specific audience that supports their writing or the ideas that they support. Many of the writings above have a specific idea that they are trying to argue and get their point across. “On Reflection” gives a more scientific approach to the audience with facts about reflection and she repeats on how good it is for teaching people how to write. She gives this very direct approach to the audience by saying, “Reflective classrooms, where we teach writing “reflectively” -by which I mean using reflections …show more content…
He was much larger than I was, a little bit more life-size, but the thick layer of shellac applied to protect the image acted like a magnifying glass, making him seem larger still(Allison 634).” She came down to the reader 's level and gave a very personal encounter to try to portray her point as she says writers should do when creating writing that is more like art. “I Am Not My Illness” by Tonya Blaney goes in the opposite direction. She gives facts like, “Since advances in psychotropic medications in the 1950s, the United States has nearly 94% reduction in the number of patients hospitalized through deinstitutionalization policies(Blaney 40).” She writes to the audience in a way that is knowledgeable without the overpowering of repetition of one thing like in “On Reflection”. In “Writing Personal Essays: On the Necessity of Turning yourself into a Character” Phillip Lopate gives his audience a new concept and tells it in such a way that it is easy to understand. He does this by saying, “In personal essays nothing is more commonly met then the letter I. I think it a perfectly good word, one no writer should be ashamed to use(Lopate 38).” In all of these writings, they connect the author and audience together through the