Supposed to be Oct. 3rd Post

The chapter starts off by questioning whether or not the audience should be a factor in what the students are writing. The model given in the chapter has writer, written product, audience, and response in a nice circle. The author stresses the that audience plays a role in how the students write. While Mitchell and Taylor feel that a students writing should be uniform and written to the audience, Corbett feels that a students writing should be free flowing and unlike other students writings regardless of what or who the audience is. He feels that the message should be expressed as the writer sees fit, not how the message will be best taken. There is also the idea of the audience invoked, where the student knows that there is indeed a reader but the student cannot write to the audience. The idea of knowing there is an audience but not writing to the audience gives both characteristics to both Taylor as well as Corbett.
The Chapter overall was worth reading. I strongly disagree with Taylor and Mitchells idea that the student should write to an audience. Students have to write to their teachers and this is no way to create a writer. Writing should be about expression of ideas and thoughts. Corbett makes a good point of students writing freely and expressing their message the way they want to. Writing in a uniform manner, and writing what the audience wants to hear is not challeneging the writer. This theory does nothing more than test the students ability to follow instructions. The chapter got me more frustrated than interested. But I guess the frustration is what kept me reading.