Persuasive or argumentative writing,which focuses on the reader and seeks to change the reader’s mind,or to bring the reader’s point of view to the writer’s,is the most prominent and practical academic writing and ...Persuasive or argumentative writing,which focuses on the reader and seeks to change the reader’s mind,or to bring the reader’s point of view to the writer’s,is the most prominent and practical academic writing and is also the most complex and most challenging.To achieve the persuasive purpose,audience is a key element to consider.But unfortunately,many Chinese college students have no sense of audience at all.Besides,although some researchers have mentioned in their books or papers the important role the audience plays in persuasive writing,so far few writing books or papers have made a relatively comprehensive and systematic study and exploration of how to strengthen Chinese college students’audience awareness.So,this paper,which is intended to elaborate on it,first gives a definition to audience awareness,then analyzes the influence audience awareness exerts on persuasive writing,and finally proposes a few feasible and effective methods to strengthen Chinese college students’audience awareness.展开更多
Materials for teaching writing not only need to incorporate the basic skills but also should consider writing purposes,audience,and real-world communicative purposes.This paper examines one chapter of writing tasks ex...Materials for teaching writing not only need to incorporate the basic skills but also should consider writing purposes,audience,and real-world communicative purposes.This paper examines one chapter of writing tasks extracted from " Language Leader" course book,aiming to explain the significance of the appUcation of communicative materials for teaching writing.展开更多
Metadiscourse is a significant method in revealing audience awareness,but related studies have been confined to linguistic markers and current writing analyses.This essay aims to enrich metadiscourse engagement in par...Metadiscourse is a significant method in revealing audience awareness,but related studies have been confined to linguistic markers and current writing analyses.This essay aims to enrich metadiscourse engagement in particular with certain rhetorical figures and to investigate audience awareness in a highly acclaimed Roman-era Greek classic:Longinus'On the Sublime.Drawing from a refined framework of engagement,we find explicit evidence of audience aware-ness as manifested in the author's use of engagement markers.We have sorted these markers into four types,including reader mentions(apostrophe and pro-nouns),directives(modal verbs and imperatives),questions(erotema and rogatio),and appeals to shared knowledge(emphasizers and comment clauses).We sug-gest that the frequent use of these engagement markers,in particular reader mentions,could be taken as evidence of the author's strong audience awareness and the cueing effect in facilitating perception.This integration of rhetorical fig-ures into the metadiscourse engagement markers contributes to the audience awareness analysis in a more explicit and comprehensive way.展开更多
基金This paper is supported by Sichuan Foreign Language and Literature Research Center(Project No.:SCWYGJ22-18)it is also the research result of“English Writing”,one of the second batch of online and offline first-class undergraduate courses in Sichuan Province(2021).
文摘Persuasive or argumentative writing,which focuses on the reader and seeks to change the reader’s mind,or to bring the reader’s point of view to the writer’s,is the most prominent and practical academic writing and is also the most complex and most challenging.To achieve the persuasive purpose,audience is a key element to consider.But unfortunately,many Chinese college students have no sense of audience at all.Besides,although some researchers have mentioned in their books or papers the important role the audience plays in persuasive writing,so far few writing books or papers have made a relatively comprehensive and systematic study and exploration of how to strengthen Chinese college students’audience awareness.So,this paper,which is intended to elaborate on it,first gives a definition to audience awareness,then analyzes the influence audience awareness exerts on persuasive writing,and finally proposes a few feasible and effective methods to strengthen Chinese college students’audience awareness.
文摘Materials for teaching writing not only need to incorporate the basic skills but also should consider writing purposes,audience,and real-world communicative purposes.This paper examines one chapter of writing tasks extracted from " Language Leader" course book,aiming to explain the significance of the appUcation of communicative materials for teaching writing.
文摘Metadiscourse is a significant method in revealing audience awareness,but related studies have been confined to linguistic markers and current writing analyses.This essay aims to enrich metadiscourse engagement in particular with certain rhetorical figures and to investigate audience awareness in a highly acclaimed Roman-era Greek classic:Longinus'On the Sublime.Drawing from a refined framework of engagement,we find explicit evidence of audience aware-ness as manifested in the author's use of engagement markers.We have sorted these markers into four types,including reader mentions(apostrophe and pro-nouns),directives(modal verbs and imperatives),questions(erotema and rogatio),and appeals to shared knowledge(emphasizers and comment clauses).We sug-gest that the frequent use of these engagement markers,in particular reader mentions,could be taken as evidence of the author's strong audience awareness and the cueing effect in facilitating perception.This integration of rhetorical fig-ures into the metadiscourse engagement markers contributes to the audience awareness analysis in a more explicit and comprehensive way.
