Other People Presentaion

First off I want to say well done to Thomas and Brandon on their presentation today.  It was well detailed and I was able to take lots of information from it.  I feel like the main topics, about a safe and dangerous audience, was spot on.  When I have to write knowing people I don’t know are going to read it I get nervous.  I feel like they are going to critique me harshly.  For example, when I took my AP U.S. History test last year, I was scared about what the graders might think.  They didn’t know me and the way I write so they might feel like my writing was dumb.  Especially because everyone has a different grading scale, I was worried about how each person might interpret my essays.  It’s so different writing for friends or family.  They won’t judge you to harshly, nor will they make fun of you.  Instead if you mess up at some part they might just laugh but try to help you afterwards.  They actually care in trying to make you a better writing.  When you write to a stranger, that’s it.  Your first paper is your final.  After reading your first, they’ll make an assumption about you right away.  They’ll assume you’re a good sought out writer or perhaps a poor writer who needs to improve promptly.  It sucks that we cant always avoid those “dangerous audiences” but at least we can try to get rid of our fear.  Once we overcome such fear, we may become better writers.