One difficulty in wring for a course is that it's hard to think of the reader of our essays as audience. Our instructor might. in fact, be our sole reader, somebody who will pack of papers into a briefcase or backpack and take them home to read on the kitchen table, correcting pan in hand. (Or nowadays, he or she may read them online or take home a stack of stack of floppy discs discs and read the papers on a computer monitor.) In fact, that has to read those essays, whether they're good or bad: he or she is even paid to do so.