audience awareness

Audience awareness is an issue that is dealt with constantly in the aspect of writing and or speaking. Barry M. Kroll, author of "Cognitive Egocentrism and the Problem with Audience Awareness in Written Discourse," asserts that the general writer seems to forget the audience at times. Knowing this, Kroll then takes the article in a different route in order to explain the importance of audience awareness as well as some tips for its approaches.
According to Aristotle, the prefered method of audience awareness was to base your speech around the audience and their reactions. This is because Windterowd asserts that "the whole point of rhetoric is adjusting discourse to the audience." Many people begin their rhetoric with the nieve thought that the audience already knows information about the topic; hence, definitions of simple things are not needed, this is false. The audience shapes a persons speech and writing, and because the whole point of our speech or writing is to connect with the audience, "a writer must think of his reader long before he begins to write(McCrimmon 269)."