This blog will follow students enrolled in Kara Taczak's WRIT 1122 course (Summer 2014) in their efforts to develop an understanding of rhetoric and academic writing through the use of key terms and reflection and the development of their theory of writing.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Three moments
The first moment was surely when we first talked about genre and audience in class. I could realize how important both are in writing and I also realized that sometimes I used to write just thinking about myself without considering the audience that I am writing to, and I didn't had a concept of genre. We looked at different kinds of genre and how each genre will have a specific format depending on the audience that it is directed to, the audience will affect the way that we will transmit the message. The image that I chose is very well known for most of we and it represents the audience which I agree now that is one of the most important things to keep in mind while we are writing something.
The second moment was the scavenger hunt project, and I chose it because it was a really good experience to work with Noah and Alicia. We went out from a world of word and abstractions to connect most of the concepts that we have learned during the class time, and connect with real life situations. And I liked it because as a students I have some problems with theory classes exactly because of that some times is very hard to take the abstraction of certain concepts and this project helped me to clarify some doubts that I had about rhetorical situation. I thought it was good because we found all the concepts in situations that we lived in our daily lives.
The third moment surely is the selling an argument project, and I say this because we had a lot of aspects to consider for the post, and we had a large scale of audience to convince. Starting with the idea that our target audience were American teenagers and we also had to appeal an older generation with 50s and 60s years old, if I am not wrong. And I believe that it was a greater challenge because of the fact that my group was composed by three elements in which two don't know very much about the American culture. It was very pleasurable to work on it, because we had to consider different aspects and agree in the kind of book that we would be selling. At the end we decided to talk about another series of 24 which would be the first totally recorded outside the U.S. so that instead of using another picture I decided to use a short video of 24.
I completely agree that learning about genre and audience was a very important moment. I think all of us learned from this lesson and were able to take away something very valuable. I particularly enjoyed your picture to describe this moment. The Target logo is a perfect representation of this moment. Learning about audience and genre has really shown me how valuable they are in writing and how important they can be in eliciting a response or change from the reader. This class has really developed over the four weeks and we’ve expanded our knowledge basis on these topics.
I completely agree that learning about genre and audience was a very important moment. I think all of us learned from this lesson and were able to take away something very valuable. I particularly enjoyed your picture to describe this moment. The Target logo is a perfect representation of this moment. Learning about audience and genre has really shown me how valuable they are in writing and how important they can be in eliciting a response or change from the reader. This class has really developed over the four weeks and we’ve expanded our knowledge basis on these topics.
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