So far this quarter, you've worked in multiple genres: newsletter, column, blog, reflection, among others. Continue theorizing about writing, writing practices, and writing processes: does all genres require the same process? How do you respond to different audiences? What prior knowledge helps shape your experience with each genre? How does genre, audience, and rhetorical situation connect together? How does one create an argument within the different genres (in other words, the same way? different way?)? What's important to keep in mind as you create an argument?
Conclude by looking back over the last 7 weeks and summarizing your writerly identity created within the class.
Use your own writing and your own experiences as evidence for this reflection.
Aim for 200-300 words. This should take about 20-30 minutes.
I feel like how you write, is intrinsically linked with who you are writing for. Your audience and your genre make so that you will write very differently in each situation. Like when we write this newspaper column, I felt like I wrote very differently than when I wrote the newsletter. For one thing, the newsletter was directed at my classmates, so I tried to use less formal language. The column also had some o that, but since I tried to write it in the style of columnists for the Washington Post, it still used more complex language.
ReplyDeleteI also think that our past experiences of the genres we write in affect the writing process. If I don't know anything about writing for a newspaper, I would want to spend some time reading a few newspaper articles, and learning what was expected of their writers. However, since I have spent so much time reading the Washington Post, it was much easier for me to write in a (hopefully) similar tone of voice. That's why we looked at past examples of class newsletters. Having a basic knowledge of the expectations of the genre makes it much easier to write for that genre.
I think it's hard to create, or look at a single writerly identity. For me, I write differently depending on who I think I'm writing for. My writing in this class has been very different from my writing in my high school English classes. Similarly, it has changed, and I think, become less formal overall, particularly in the blog posts. I'm less trying to impress my teacher with all the "SAT vocab" that I've learned, than trying to communicate with my classmates.
I believe all genres require a specific process where you must keep your audience in mind, the layout for that genre, and the organization of your thoughts before going straight to writing. However, some genres require research before writing while other genres you just begin writing and then go back to change certain parts of your piece. There is a large range of different genres so the writing process is key. You respond to different audiences by adjusting your language to help them understand and want to keep reading your piece. For example, my language in a letter to my grandmother would be very different than the language in a text to my best friend. Prior knowledge such as basic grammar, spelling, and other logistical concepts help me understand the differences between genres. I can tell a newsletter from a column just how it looks visually. Genre, audience, and rhetorical situation all connect to one another. Each genre attracts a specific audience, and in writing your piece, your rhetorical situation must adjust in order to keep your audience engaged. An argument would be created in different ways in each genre. Some genres require a more aggressive, upfront argument and others you can get away with solely hinting at the argument yet still having it be successful. As you create an argument, think about how your audience is going to react to it and then adjust accordingly.
ReplyDeleteAll genres require a unique process for each. I believe this is what differentiates one genre from another. The unique process in developing a newsletter is much different from developing a column or fiction or poetry. There is a different state of mind for each one.
ReplyDeleteDifferent audiences require different vocabulary and structure. An audience of quantum physicists should have a complex and thurough structure with large vocabulary while an audience of pre-schoolers should have a simple structure with simple vocabulary.
Genre, audience, and rhetorical situation all come together like a sandwich. The audience is the hungry person, the genre is the type of sandwich, and the rhetorical situation is the hunger. The situation compels an audience which is moved by a specific genre.
An argument is generally made in the same manner in all genres. An argument is won with the right portions of ethos, pathos, and logos. Every genre requires these three attributes to persuade because they are the blueprint for how to press the right buttons within people.
Of the many things to keep in mind when creating an argument, I believe the most important are asserting your credibility with confidence, making the emotions behind your argument known to the audience, and structuring it in such a way that anyone could understand the connections.
Different genres need different processes. If I am writing an email or a text to my friend that is trying to be funny, I’ll try to think of funny phrases or words. This also goes when I am trying to be serious I’ll change my diction and tone in the text. If I am writing a college essay about how Karl Marx introduced a new economic theory, I’ll need to plan it out and organize my thoughts before writing. My tone is going to be more serious and I would try to get to the point. If I was going to write about the columns we just did I will still need to plan my writing. As a writer, you are aware of who your audience is and will address them in different natures. If I am presenting in front of the class, I will be more serious then if it was just a friend and I. having knowledge before writing in a certain genre will help shape your writing because you will be able to gear your writing toward that audience in a familiar way. They connect together because they all kind of happen at the same time and they need to be correct to make the situation or writing have a bigger impact. The rhetorical situation is the scenario or problem that caused the discourse, as a writer the people in the discourse is you audience and your genre depends on what the problem is in the first place. In a scientific paper, a writer will use more logos to persuade the audience with facts and will have to create ethos to prove he or she is credible. If I was arguing with friends I would use more pathos and logos because they already know my credentials, and I would use humor or sympathy to try to persuade them.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think all genres require the same process. Overall, someone’s writing process is probably similar with every piece they write, but as far as thought processes, different genres require different types of thinking. By writing a blog, a writer can program their mind to write a little less formal and more how they would speak in real life. When writing a research paper, the writer may want to be more grammatically correct and proper.
ReplyDeleteI respond to different audiences by adjusting the way I write based on who I think will read what I’m writing. By writing the newsletter directed towards freshman in college, I wrote something less formal and more along the lines of something I would want to read. When writing papers for solely for professors, I want to sound more intelligent and well spoken.
I don’t really have any prior experience in writing many genres, but my prior experiences in life have helped shape the way I write in each genre. By interacting daily with people my age and people twice my age, I have learned that you act differently to people of different ages. This applies to writing as well, certain ways of talking and writing appeal to different age groups.
Genre, audience and rhetorical situation all tie together because these are what make up your thought processes behind your writing. By choosing a genre, you automatically choose a certain audience in which you will be writing towards. By forming a rhetorical situation, the author is pretty much deciding on the argument which they will be writing about.
I think there is always a way to form an argument in every genre. There may be a different though process behind it, but nonetheless an argument can always be made about something. Every type of writing can have convincing aspects to them whether it is a blog, a newsletter, a column, or a research paper.
It is important to know what you are talking about when creating an argument. A reader will not continue reading a piece of writing that is wrong. It is also important to research the topic that you are writing about, even if you think you know all there is to know about it. Delivering false information to a reader can destroy the author’s argument almost instantly.
In the last 7 weeks, I think I have found my writing identity. Before this class, I had little to no experience in writing in different genres. In high school, I mainly wrote research papers and book reflections, but this class has opened my mind to a new perspective on writing. I have learned that it is okay to use your voice in your writing and it is not always necessary to use big words and sound extremely proper. I have also learned to think about my writing process, which is something I have never thought of doing before. These things have helped to improve my writing and have also helped me to enjoy my writing more.
Writing has plasticity, that is to say writing can be shaped to accommodate both the audience and the writer. Throughout the past seven weeks we have been forced to make use of our writing's plasticity, we have written newsletter, columns, blogs, reflections, etc. that require us to shape our thoughts to create a distinct form of writing. Every genre in writing requires a different process of writing,in the sense of ideas, that is the way you structure a blog post is completely different from that on a research paper; informal--use of personal nouns, addressing others, nonchalant style of writing--and formal--use of credible sources, bibliographies, objectivity--respectively. This same idea applies to audience, in that a writer does not write the same piece he would write for first graders as he would for a board of researchers, the point I am trying to make is that shaping the writing in order to accommodate the audience is key in getting a message across. Earlier I mentioned that writing is shaped to according to both the writer and the audience, the write must organize his thoughts in order to write well and keep in mind his target audience so as to not confuse them. These two elements are crucial in making a successful argument. A writer must be able to write something that will persuade an audience of both people who agree with him, are completely against his stance, and those who have no opinions at all (in order to create some form of thought within them). As well as being able to effectively organize his words to persuade those who read the argument. As you can see genre and audience go hand in hand, and play a crucial role in the credibility of an argument.
ReplyDeleteOver the last seven weeks, we have written a lot of different types of assignments, from blogs to newsletter to columns. We’ve even drawn a picture or two. I think I’ve learned a lot about how to write in different genres. And I think there is a difference to how you write depending on what genre you are writing. For example, I wrote differently for my columns than when I did in my newsletter or the blogs. In my newsletter, I was writing to my classmates, and was intentionally trying to be funny. In my columns, I was trying to write to a much broader audience and I was trying to persuade people to see my point of view. As for my blogs, they are much more informal than either of the other two I wrote, as I don’t need to worry being formal in the way I write. It’s supposed to be very causal. They are all very different, and they all require a different way to write. They all also require a different process when it comes to creating an argument. The constraints for each genre required me to think about writing and arguing in a certain way. I couldn’t be super statistical and logical in my newsletter, as that is not very interesting and would not get me readers. I couldn’t be informal in my argument in my columns because they were for an adult audience. Both required different tactics when it comes to creating an argument.
ReplyDeleteI think that I’ve grown as a writer over these past few weeks. I feel like I have become more confident in what I write, and I feel like I have also solidified my belief that I write best when I write with emotion. I am an emotional writer, and while that’s not always a good thing, it is my writerly identity. And I quite enjoy it.
In terms of forming an argument, I believe that all genres require the same framework. However, I don’t think that they all follow the same process. The difference lies in the formulation of an argument versus the genre standards. Each argument will need to have some variety of ethos, logos, and pathos to be effective; this is true regardless of the genre. But, not all arguments will look the same because they fall in different genres. This is due to the rhetoric being targeted at different audiences. Different writing tools will work more effectively on some than others. In a college newsletter, the writing will tend to be more informal and appeal to a younger crowd.
ReplyDeletePrior knowledge with the different genres like the newsletter and column cause us to instantly have an idea of what these genres are like. Just reading a sports column in your daily newspaper will introduce you to the genre conventions and purposes of the column. It makes it a more enjoyable experience also when you already have prior knowledge with a particular genre.
Genre, audience, and rhetorical situation are inextricably connected; certain rhetorical situations will make you want to write in a certain way to a certain audience. For example, when the Trailblazers beat the Lakers by sinking a three-pointer to beat the 4th quarter buzzer, the sports columnist in the Oregonian is going to be driven to write an article to the Blazer fans about how this win indicates the rise of the team in the Western Conference.
I think that arguments are formulated differently depending on the genre. In a column, a claim is typically made at the end of the column after building up various evidence. However, with a rhetorical analysis or an academic paper, you want to make your claim apparent from the beginning and then support it throughout. It is important to keep in mind the genre conventions and the audience when forming an argument. It needs to be something that the audience can understand and that fits with the overall genre. Of course, there is always some wiggle room within genres; you can make your claim apparent from the beginning in a column if you want. The most important thing to keep in mind when forming an argument is your audience.
Over the semester we have taken a unique approach to writing. This approach has allowed me to look further into writing and the writing process, which, in turn, has made me a better writer.
ReplyDeleteFirst, all genres do not require the same process. I think that for every genre you can use a different process for writing and constructing a piece. An example would be if you were to write a play script or a letter. These are two different genres that require different processes for writing. My prior knowledge about genres has influenced this idea because I have looked at the writing process for different genres and written for different genres. Writing my newsletter required a different process entirely than writing my column. This knowledge has helped shape how I interact with different genres.
Genre, audience, and rhetorical situation are all interconnected and dependent on each other. Different genres all appeal and are written to target a certain audience. Audience is important because it gives the writing purpose, and a group of people the author can appeal to through his genre. The rhetorical situation takes place in every genre because their needs to be purpose. Rhetorical situation gives genres purpose and a way to construct a story, argument ect. in order to appeal to the audience.
An argument can be created throughout different genres in different ways. There are a number of different genres in the world and arguments can be made within them in a variety of ways. If you are watching a documentary on the food industry where the main argument is that the food we are eating is killing us, it’s presented in a different way than if you were reading a short classical novel by Hemmingway. Arguments across the board have some of the same components as one another but they are presented differently.
When you are forming an argument, it’s important to remember what you are arguing, why you’re arguing it, and what evidence you have to support your argument. It’s very important that you show evidence for your argument so that your audience can believe what you’re arguing.
Over the last seven weeks we have taken a in depth look at different genres, and how to appropriately write for different genres to target a different audience. These skills that we are learning have made me a better writer because I am becoming more focused with who I am writing to and how to clearly communicate my message to the target audience. The last seven weeks have been a continues effort of learning and engaging which has been a great experience.
Take into consideration the genre of my writing means by definition that I use a different process for each genre. Indeed, some genre allow writing informally, some other allow giving my opinion…
ReplyDeleteIn order to respond to different audiences, I have to adapt my writing to fit with my audience’s expectation. To achieve this goal, a prior knowledge of my audience is essential.
Afterwards, I believe that the readings and being audience of different genre is a prior knowledge which is essential to shape my experience with each genre. For instance reading sport article, case report, columns… allows getting use to different genre. Furthermore, it allows getting specific vocabulary and language.
Now I know that genre, audience, and rhetorical situation connect together. The genre need to be adapted to the audience, thus the audience is more likely to be the mediator of the change required by the rhetorical situation.
As I create an argument, it’s important to keep in mind what is the purpose of my argumentation and how my audience is supposed to react to my evidences.
For the seven weeks of class that I have been working hard, finally, I start to see the results. I don’t want to call it as “identify” my writer’s DNA. I look at the course work as the tools to sharper my mind as a writer. I’ve been improving in many areas as a writer and as an English learner. To me, the most prolific improvement would be that I’m able to include my passion more on the writing. I can’t specify the single work that have influence to me the most because it is a series of work. So, it would be hard for me to identify the single effect to me as a writer.
ReplyDeleteThe audience is probably the biggest argument between these works that we have done so far. They all have their own genres. They are all have the very unique reflections that based on the appropriate to the situation. However, the purpose of the genres are taking the same approach. You’re trying to summarize the reading/handouts to the blog post. The audience is student in this class. For Newsletter, we have to writer according to the topic that you assign to us. The audience is freshmen. Column meant to compose something that we have the creditability to write about. The audience is everyone in general. Therefore, the appropriate genre that we have to use is based on our audience.
All diferent writing has a nEed for diferent development. When you are keeping in mind your target audience your writing evolves completely to fit the interests of it. As we have learned in class you are able to convey the same message in a number of diferent ways in order to best express what you are trying to persuade. Now what you write about is most compeling depending on your experience and knowledge of the subject. Thats why we reaserch to gain the closest feel of the subject as possible, make outselves knowlwdgable sources.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the column was the most enjoyable.I believe mostly because I had the most experience on the subject. Which made it my strongest peice.
I don’t think all genres require the same process. Each genre requires specific process. The organization or layout are different from genres. For example, when we do the newsletter, we need to add pictures and organize the layout. We also need to make it colorful. However, when we do the blog, we just need to do the text or pictures sometimes. It basically does not have the process of organizing the layout.
ReplyDeleteThe most essential point is that understand your audience for responding to different audiences. Different audiences expect different information, tone, and form.
All of prior knowledge helps me shape my experience with each genre, especially the audience, rhetorical situation and the three rhetorical appeals.
I think that the central point of connecting genre, audience together is rhetorical situation.
We need to use different way to create an argument within the different genres.
The most important to keep in mind as I create an argument is audience. Audience is always the motivation and constraint of writing.
Writing the columns gave me a much needed chance to write of a popular audience again after the newsletter. I feel my popular voice improved while I was writing the columns, in particular the second one which I felt was better the first in terms of tone and flow. In my earlier writing, I had always had to respond to an academic audience and I would use that as the basis of my writing style. While this has helped me in the past with assignments such as lab reports, I find that it leaves my writing in this class lacking in personality and emotion. However, while writing the columns I began to get feel for transferring my emotion though my writing and not just stating a list of facts. My writing process for this assignment was different from the newsletter in that I let my writing flow more naturally than I did before.
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