Audience

Audience plays an important role in shaping my writing style. It influences my writing persona in term of specificity, solidity and formality. If my paper is aimed at people of similar interest as mine, it is easier to influence them with a less formal and humorous tone while remaining thoughtful in telling specific goals and messages. If my paper is aimed at public audience, then it could be anyone out of any interests and ages. This is when I have to be more careful in projecting my writing style. It has to sound convincing without ignoring the fact that the audience has initially had their own stand or belief on certain issues. It is the hardest part that drives me to think out of the box to come out with wise arguments. Audience also guides me along in writing a well-defined paper. It is an important matter to me to know that the audiences enjoy reading my writings. It is a plus pleasure if the audience could reach out to my center of arguments and swayed their mind upon reading my paper. Whether the audiences agree or disagree with my viewpoints, the most important thing for me is to get their response.

I guess my ideal audience for my common place essay would be the majority of college students as well as teaching instructors. I was writing as if I represent my college friends in voicing out the dilemma of a boring lecture.

I see more similarities between the group projects and the blog. I love getting immediate comments from the audience so that I could have a fresh mind to improve my writings and sometimes, argue. I think getting feedbacks from the audience is necessary for it broadens my way of thinking and it prepares me better to be judged by others. Blog is a fun medium to write. Yes, getting comments could drastically change the ethos of the blog but it is how learning supposed to be. It invites two-ways of communication which I think is important aspect to understand issues better. After participating in all the class assignments, I am now tending towards the idea of public writing because it’s kind of better adjusting my mode of writing to be more specific and convincing. By noticing the existence of audience, I am keen to write a well-thought-out paper and at the same time carefully putting out my statements to fit in with my audiences expectations appropriately.

How I Came to Change My Mind About Fashion

I have no doubt that I love fashion so much; I love how it reflects our personality in part while increasing the self-confidence. But too often, I came across thinking the opposite way; fashion enslaves people as it is becoming more unrealistic. I switched my mind due to direct observations on public surroundings and media portrayals.

Isn't it true that fashion matters so much to us? It has incredible power in making some people feel superior to others. Those who dress according to the latest trend will enjoy greater attention than those who are not. This eventually led to a bias assumption made by people to judge others from the outside rather than inside. Fashion ultimately sets a gap in our society by subtly rank people into several types of cliques. Unwittingly, it drives some people to follow the crowd by all means possible to avoid falling into the inferior category. If we blindly accept all the unnecessary fashion theories from head to toe, we will continuously not feeling satisfied with what we have had previously due to the power of fashion’s revolution.

I found these points to be relevant as I come reading other internet users' blogs. Blogs have become a tool to show off one's fashion styles and desires. It tells how some people getting so eager to have new clothings and branded stuffs while showing off their new tops, bottoms, bags-almost everything. I also feel that fashion controls our decision making. People tend to get attracted to new styles as advertised in magazine and television, without taking their body image and purchasing power into consideration beforehand. The up to date fashions are tend to be weird and unrealistically expensive which caused people to waste money on the stuff that they will never wear. It was truly happened to me when I regretted buying branded stuffs after a while, when the happiness is gone. A friend of mine also ended up feeling the same once he purchased a pair of super expensive shoes from Gucci. He argues how fashion can be bad based on his experience to run a business and deals with people from varying backgrounds. He convinced me how some people tend to hide their personalities behind great fashion styles in order to get a partnership in business projects. Those people usually aren't really the right persons to hold a share; they don't really own much to invest on those projects.

So, why don’t we remain flexible in choosing moderate fashion without being enslaved by its cruel power? I feel that we should not have to fear the power of fashion upon judging ones’ status nor should we feel embarrassed by what the people around us are wearing. That is why I think fashion is bad. Now, I favor people to be themselves, style in their own affordable ways and most important not to judge a book by its cover.