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The phrase "addressing the reader" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of speaking directly to the audience in a text, often to engage or involve them in the content.
Example: "In this essay, I will be addressing the reader to emphasize the importance of active participation in discussions."
Alternatives: "engaging the audience" or "speaking to the reader".
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Hamid develops this by addressing the reader directly in this novel.
By addressing the reader directly, Hegi implicitly conveys an intention to reach beyond the bounds of fiction.
Literature is conventionally taught as a person-to-person aesthetic experience: the writer (or the poem) addressing the reader.
Hence his penchant for directly addressing the reader — all three of his novels make extravagant use of the second person.
Addressing the reader, DiCamillo writes: "Imagine, if you will, having spent the whole of your life in a dungeon.
Structured like a self-help tome, the novel is written in the second person, cheekily addressing the reader as "you".
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Audrey addresses the reader when talking.
Willems's books also address the reader directly.
The book is a very self-conscious kind of metafiction: you talk to the reader, you address the reader.
It's a chatty, funny, engaging book, one that often addresses the reader directly.
But when Hemingway's narrator addresses the reader he says (writes) "nigger".
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