Chapter 10 gave a lot of information that will assist with project three about multi genre projects. The chapter began by asking the reader to determine their rhetorical situation of their project. Once they have determined that they are able to further get their message across and reach their audience more effectively. The chapter gives guidelines on how to assemble the multi genre project including; introducing your project, sequencing your genre pieces, titling the project, creating an artists statement, and packaging the project creatively. I will definitely be referring to this chapter while working on my project because it gives so many details and so much insight on how to organize the project.
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 completely agree that I will look back at this chapter during my creation of project 3. It especially opened my eyes to the importance of a title that I normally speed through.
ReplyDeleteThis chapter of the book provided me with something I wasn't expecting, a literal "how-to" for our multimedia project. I agree that it gives us good insight on how to organize our project
ReplyDeleteI will also be referring to this chapter when I work on my project. It was very helpful in providing the steps to take for a multigenre project.
ReplyDeleteI also viewed this chapter as a sort of guide to project 3, and will definitely be using it to help me complete the project.
ReplyDelete