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Peter Elbow's Essay 'Closing My Eyes As I Speak'

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Peter Elbow claims in “Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience”, audience is important but sometimes should be placed on the backburner during the writing process. He says that thinking about the audience while writing can sometimes affect our style of how we write. I agree with Elbow that this is true. I believe that thinking about the audience during the writing process can influence how the finished product will look. I also think that we as the writer have a choice as to who are audience can be. Choosing who audience is can affect what and how the writer writes. One way a writer can choose their audience is through social media. Social media is one of the ways that a writer can choose who their audience.

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