The Role of Audiences - Fulwiler

As I started reading this, I agreed with a lot of the points. I liked the idea that we generally learned how to distinguish between audiences at an early stage but only with oral language because we use it much more often and essentially are continuously practicing it. At the bottom of page 173 is where I was not to pleased. Ha. "However, as an individual writer, you can make choices that will influence this difficult audience positively -- especially if you understand that most of your instructors are fundamentally caring people."

I do not agree with that statement at all. For the most part, before I entered graduate school, I hated most of my teachers. They just did not seem to give a shit about what they were teaching or whether or not the content was of any value or whether or not we truly understood anything. From middle school to my last years of my Bachelor's, I had so many teachers that really were not fundamentally caring. I think this should not even be mentioned in the writing. If anything, I'm pretty sure a student can gauge whether or not a teacher cares about them simply by how they treat them. I know it says "most." But even that is pushing it.

Anyway. The rest was pretty agreeable. I like the part discussing how you should ask for a certain kind of feedback and how teachers enjoy reading things or learning new things etc. I used to grade papers for a couple of instructors and I would definitely get bored reading the same thing -- but I sometimes blame the teacher for making such closed prompts that the results will most like not vary.

This whole post seems very anti-teacher and I do not mean to be. Just in general, not everyone has the opportunity to have a great instructor so I think that should also be accounted for very explicitly.