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Getting Started

Learn to adapt genres to your purpose and audience, shaping your writing with content, style, and design. Understand rhetorical situations, genres, and audiences to create impactful documents. Discover how genres evolve, mix, and influence your writing process. Dive into genres, audiences, and contexts for successful communication.

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Getting Started

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  1. Getting Started Writing Today Chapters 1,2,3

  2. Organize and draft Invent your ideas Choose a style Analyze the rhetorical situation Design the document Genre Revise and edit

  3. Writing in GenresWhat are genres? • They are ways of writing and speaking that help people interact and work together. • They change to suit new social situations and new challenges. • They must adapt to your audience.

  4. Genres are flexible • To adjust to fit various situations • To evolve to suit various fields • To shape situations and readers

  5. Genres can be mixed to match. • Use a memoir to review a book • Use a rhetorical analysis to study a painting You must define your specific purpose. The genre you choose should influence each stage of your writing process. • Content • Organization • Style • Design

  6. Using a Writing Process • Analyze the rhetorical situation • Invent your ideas • Organize and draft your paper • Choose an appropriate style • Design your document • Revise and edit your work

  7. Assignment • Page 12 • Talk About This: 1 or 2 • Try This Out: #4

  8. Chapter 2Topic, Angle, Purpose • Topic: What am I writing about? (Identify and narrow) • Angle: What is new or has changed recently about the topic? (Develop) • Purpose: What should I accomplish? Refer to figure 2.5 on page 20 • Choose the appropriate genre. Refer to figure 2.7 on page 23

  9. Assignment • Page 25 • Talk About This: 1 and 2

  10. Chapter 3Readers, Contexts, and Rhetorical Situations • Who are my readers? • What are their expectations, needs, wants? • Where will they be reading? • When will they read? • Why are they reading? • How will they read it?

  11. Consider… • Your readers’ values • Personal • Social • Cultural • Attitudes toward you and the issue

  12. Analyze the Context • Place • Profile your audience • Medium • Paper • Electronic • Public • Podcast or video • Social and Political Influences • Social trends • Economic trends • Political trends

  13. What might affect your topic?

  14. Genres and the Rhetorical Situation • Topic • Angle • Purpose • Readers • Context

  15. Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle Speaker Audience Subject

  16. Assignment • Page 38 • Talk About This: 1, 2, and 3

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