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http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118948886/PDFSTART
In the article "Developing audience awareness in writing" by Jose Brandano Carvalho, the author is discussing the importance of a writer understanding a reader. In order for a writer to grasp what his audience is getting out of his writing, he first needs to understand how to read. They did a study on Portuguese students and they discovered as stated in the article "We saw writing as a very complex activity in which the child could not possibly attend to all its requirements simultaneously." In otherwords to be able to write they need a cognitive awareness before being able to be their own author, thus they need to read to have their audience understand them.