Blog 1

This reading made me think about audience and its effect on rhetoric. Without an audience, information is lost. If we have no one to communicate our ideas with, they become moot. If students didn't have teachers to write papers for or complete projects for, then no one would do them. Without an audience, information and ideas become completely irrelevant. This causes me to think about success. For example, politicians need an audience - the public. In America, if we decided to completely disregard elected officials and all their policies and ideas, they would no longer be relevant or important. They need an audience in order to thrive. Furthermore, if the audience does not provide feedback, then the author will only continue to do as he or she desires without a thought as to how effective they are being. So basically, audience is just as important to an argument as the author.