relationships

Tannen states in her article, “Many women feel, ‘After all this time, you should know what I want without me telling you.’ Many men feel, ‘After all this time, we should be able to tell each other what we want” (435). Tannen is stating that, women feel if they have been in a relationship for a long enough period of time that the men should know what they want without her saying it. The men are saying if you have something to say or I have something to say we should be able to come out in the open and express our feeling towards one another. This problem arises a lot in the reader-writer relationship. The problem comes along when the writer does not list all the details in a paper and the reader has to read in between the lines or try to figure out themselves when that is not their job. The writer feels as if they put in just enough details the reader would be able to read in between the lines or figure out what they are talking about. That causes a problem in the relationship because the reader is wondering why if they had something they wanted to say, why would they not elaborate or put more detail in the story. That may make the reader not want to read any more because of the lack of detail. That causes a communication problem between the reader and the writer.

More problems of communication come when readers can’t understand writers. Children have parents that have an accent but don’t speak with an accent. They speak how the people they grew up with talk. When kids learn how to talk, they learn from their same sex. They are influenced by their society that they are brought up in (Tannen 440). When Tannen talks about kids talk like their environment they grew up in, this relates to the writers. When a writer writes they type h...

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... without sending the wrong message unintentionally. I think for writers this is the hardest part in writing because they may have a certain issue that is needed to be addressed within the story and the reader may either lose sight of the issue or may not even recognize it at all also, they might grasp the idea and make a different meaning to it than what the writer originally had planned. This is why it is especially important for writers to make their points clear and precise when it comes to writing stories or certain issues that they want others to come across and understand because it is hard for the readers to understand if not given the right amount of information. However, certainly there are times when the readers have difficulty understanding the points at all and it is sometimes not in the writers control as to what is taken and understood from the story.