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Bedford Reading Response

After reading chapter one, I learned that in order to be a successful writer you have to think like the author. You have to read their their text carefully and find out how they make their writing work depending on their genre. Also, before you begin writing you should make sure your purpose is clear, so you can find the best genre for getting your point across to your audience. Although, you are always writing to an audience, the audience may not always be the same. Therefore, you have to think about who you are writing to and how you address your purpose to meet their expectations. For example if you are writing a paper for class, you are going to want to use big vocabulary words, rather than small vocabulary when writing for a younger audience such as children. This chapter was very useful for me because it helped me understand the main components of writing such as the rhetoric appeals, ethos, pathos, and logos. For future papers, I'll definitely refer back to this chapter because it contained a lot of information that could help me when I'm writing my papers.

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  1. UnknownJanuary 10, 2018 at 4:48 PM

    I agree that knowing your audience is very important and that one may have to change their appeal in order to help the audience understand.

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  2. Megan HellerJanuary 10, 2018 at 7:10 PM

    As an author, you have to be precise and accurate in who you are communicating with and with the message. As an audience member, you should be able to understand the motives behind the writing through his or her rhetorical appeals. I agree that there is more involved than just words on a page.

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