Know Your Audience Analysis

We are officially in week 4 of this semester. I have enjoyed the majority of our assignments and feel like I am beginning to know my classmates. Some of our class mates are so personal and very detailed in the struggles they have in their lives. One post that I enjoyed responding to was the Freewriting on One Potato – Two Potato – Three Potato – Four. Having a writer willing to share their heart, and me having the ability to respond makes me feel emotionally connected to them. Then there were some who are a little vague and broad. I have noticed in some cases, if a post is short and sweet, sometimes the responses are also short and sweet. Something that has surprised me, is that some guys have posted a lot of emotional and detailed things. Not to be sexist, but I have had an assumption that guys are not detailed, and that they are less emotional. My “What are you thankful for” post showed me that men can be as sentimental too. One post I had to chuckle at was the, “favorite food”. The question was what is your favorite food? Some posted to the point, there favorite food was blank. Then you had others like myself who posted about a variety of restaurants and types of food as well as history and why. In a class like this you get have many types of people with different personalities so it is expected to have such variation in writing and responses. The most apparent thing from the posts that I noticed, is that everyone loves their family. Whether it was “What are you thankful for” or “vacation” or “happiest memory” someone on almost every post, commented about their family. I am a very emotional and detailed person, so I have noticed sometimes in my writing I get long winded. I have also noticed from the Know Your Audience discussion as well as blogs, that we have a range of people, some very religious and some not at all, some liberal, some not. My writing is my own. I don’t write for others approval, I write to improve. I do not expect my writing to change based on who is reading it, because you cannot please everyone & my peers are such a broad group.