This article gives a view on writing that we have not explored in class in depth yet. The visual aspect of what is being read can have as great of an impact on the reader as the text itself. This gives a nice background to what an audience expects from certain forms of writing and how those expectations can be met with taking those visual aspects into account, such as typefaces. Typefaces are used to catch the readers attention, and may direct attention to a certain point in the text that may have not been a highlighted point for the reader.
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 the article gives a nice background on what the audience may expect from certain types of writing.
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