College Composition / Unit 18 CMP 0442 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Effect on Audience
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The idea
Every choice in a text, from structure to tone to evidence, has an effect on its audience, and revision weighs those effects.
In practice
Academic essays generally use a formal tone, precise wording and careful editing because those choices earn a scholarly reader's trust.
Where people slip
Ask of each revision: will this make my intended reader more likely to understand and accept the point?
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