Skilled EFL writers possess audience awareness, keeping readers in mind to judge whether their writing is understandable and coherent.¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2001 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 2 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q2 i? All nine skilled writers were found to possess audience awareness, asking whether readers can understand their intended meaning. → Yu-Ling You; Shih-Guey Joe 2001

Evidence¶

Yu-Ling You; Shih-Guey Joe 2001¶

Yu-Ling You; Shih-Guey Joe. (2001). Investigating the Metacognitive Awareness and Strategies of English-Majored University Student Writers. ERIC Document ED465281. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED465281

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Interview analysis of the nine skilled EFL writers on audience awareness. Subjects asked "Can the readers understand me?" and noted a writer understanding the text does not mean readers can; the article states this knowledge helps writers determine whether their writing is coherent.

"All of the nine subjects in this study are found to possess this type of declarative knowledge."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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