Audience :] Week 14

I used to feel like I was the only one having trouble in how I am writing to a certain audience. After endorsement groups, I am feeling better because I know that I am not the only one and other people in class have the same difficulties in addressing audience sometimes. For me, as a writer, something that has been the hardest for me to understand and deal with has been addressing my audience. I always have an audience in mind that I am wanting to address but I don't always say what is needed to be said for this audience to make my paper as strong and effective as it could be. For instance, I wrote about fathers and how important their roles are to their children. However, what I had originally was addressed to new fathers. The information that I provided was too general and on top of this, I really needed to narrow my audience. So far for each paper, the place where I seem to be the weakest is in addressing audience. I either have too wide of an audience or else the information that I have does not work for the audience I am wanting to talk to. I am still trying to figure this out but I am slowly beginning to understand how to narrow my focus and stay on topic of my audience. I hope that by the time I make my portfolio revisions that I can have this weakness of mine under control. I really want to be a good writer and a huge part of this is audience :)