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Park, Douglas B. "The Meanings of 'Audience.'" College English 44 (March 1982): 24757. At 06:22 PM 7/20/1998 -0400, Anthony Pare wrote: >Russ: I'd love to claim the reference to audience as "all those folks >out there in chairs," but it was Park (first name?), not me. I think, >though, that the academic "audience" (still a totally unsatisfactory >metaphor for me) is more accurately perceived as a critic in the theatre >- a "reader" waiting to find fault. Can we not agree that there are such >things as authentic opportunities for reading, more or less, and that >the acacdemic reader is simulating such a reading? The closest authentic >reading situation I can imagine that "fits" reading student essays is >the one we all find ourselves in as working scholars, and the evaluation >we deploy against student writing is a measure of how far that writing >falls from the writing we experience (or expect) professionally. I >should add that I find Russ Hunt's one BIG idea both very persuasive and >very big. Anthony Pare. > (Prof.) Richard M. Coe English Department, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC CANADA V5A 1S6 email: [log in to unmask] office phone: (604) 291-4316 English Department FAX: (604) 291-5737 President Phone: (604) 291-5535 Faculty Association Fax: (604) 291-3452 Simon Fraser University Association Homepage: Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 http://www.sfu.ca/sfufa/