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.
Throughout chapter 1 of “The Bedford Book of Genres,” I learned that there are a variety of ways to improve one’s writing. Several writers tend to get carried away while writing that they forget who their audience is and what message they are trying to deliver. This is when one must ask themselves what their purpose of writing is, do they want to present a narrative/ tell a story, inform, or persuade. After figuring out ones purpose they must choose a genre to be able to shorten their idea and be concise. In order for this to occur one must know the basic qualities and agreed-upon rules about the genre they are composing. Once one makes those decisions they move on to the rhetorical situation which mainly explains the idea. This allows the writer to provide support on their purpose such as saying what is great about it or provide statistics, which will automatically make their writing more interesting for the audience to read, as well as, get t...
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.
ReplyDeleteAs 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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