Duane H. Roen and R. J. Willey, the authors of the text, “The Effects of Audience Awareness on Drafting and Revising” make the claim that audience awareness improves the overall quality of early drafts and revisions. Roen and Willey support this claim through the use of tests conducted at the University of Arizona. The tests eventually showed that: “early drafts that were judged moderately but nonsignificantly higher in overall quality than early drafts produced by students who were not asked to focus attention on audience as they drafted” (Roen, 77). Meaning that there was a small, but noticeable difference in quality between those who were “audience aware” and those who were not.
Duane H. Roen and R. J. Willey Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Feb., 1988), pp. 75-88
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