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- Who am I writing for? What are the audience's beliefs and assumptions?
According to the rubric for the assignment, I will be writing for a freshman student in my discipline about how arguments in it are constructed.
- What position will they take on this issue? How will I need to respond to this position?
I do not think this question applies considering I'm writing literary analysis.
- What will they want to know?
My audience will want a complete and convincing analysis of the text. I need to address all relevant rhetorical strategies that create the argument. This is logos, ethos, and pathos and then a well developed look into each subtopic and how it actually creates the argument.
- How might they react to my argument?
As I wrote earlier, this is a question that applies very little to writing rhetorical analysis as I do not have an argument of my own, I'm simply examining how the author of the article makes their points.
- How am I trying to relate or connect with my audience?
I am trying to present my audience with a reasonable analysis of the article from Road and Track.
- Are there specific words, ideas, or modes of presentation that will help me relate to them in this way?
An analysis based on the rhetorical strategies that we learned about will most likely be the most useful way that I can present my analysis to my audience.
- More Development
I think my main goal in this Project is to communicate the argument and what and how the author of the article I am analyzing is saying. I honestly think writing should be very simple. You should just write what you want to say in an entertaining readable manner and not beat around the bush. Say you're point and move on.
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I read and commented on both Chloe and Hallye's blog posts. I found that my post was lacking development in comparison to their more extensive posts. I think this is because I have very much an engineering mindset: I just want to say the point and move on. This sometimes makes it hard for me to write in-depth and in a manner teachers like.
Hi Laurence! I see where you thought your post was kind of short, the sentences are small and to the point, which can be refreshing. I agree with most of the stuff you mentioned about the audience. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteI interpreted the second question differently, and just answered it in terms of the original text I'm analyzing. I think the way the audience reacts to that is very important so I feel it's important to take that into account. Not sure how much you learned with this blog post, but if this is how you felt about all the questions then more power to you! Regardless, I'm sure your analysis will turn out well. You seem very confident about writing in this genre.
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