ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 showed how functional knowledge of audience comes only over time by interacting with the actual members of one’s audience, whereas this and the following chapter show the potential effects of this interaction on scientists’ writing and research. In these next two chapters, I look at Swendsen’s, Bouzida’s, and Kumar’s overt attempts to get feedback on the DOMC text from specific members of their audiences. I examine what that feedback was and how they responded to it. Specifically, I follow the physicists’ DOMC text into communal interactive dynamics, telling what the authors did to get to know and interact with specific members of their audiences in real practice and with what consequences. I show them interacting with and coming to know (and be influenced by) three members of their audiences on a direct and personal level.
