Response to Brandon Mitchell

One of the things I liked about this post is how Brandon was able to connect the current chapter to the previous chapters. As he mentioned, the previous chapters stressed the important of taking a reader-centered approach. Chapter 3 continued in the same direction by setting guidelines for finding out about the reader.

Brandon also commented that he believed some of the expectations were too high. This was an interesting thought because I also had one like it when reading the chapter. As I was reading all the different aspects I was supposed to consider about my readers, I really wondered how I was going to remember all of them. I imagined how difficult it would be to write an e-mail at work and not only focus on the task at hand, but also consider the fact that my e-mail could be handed down to "phantom" or "future" readers. It already seems difficult to focus on my present audience, but adding a yet unknown audience would make it much more complicated.