ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rhetorical Situation, Literal And Figurative Language, Simile

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Jamie Bradley

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Is there any demographic information that you should keep in mind? (consider race, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, economic status, etc. ) Are your readers conservative, liberal, or middle of the road?) What is the best way to do so? (consider which strategies will be effective- narrative, comparison, etc. ) When addressing readers you don"t know write mor formally) What does your audience need and expect from you? (what genre is more appropriate) To understand why an experience you once had matters to you?) Letters, profiles, reports, position papers, poems, blog posts, instructions, parodies, even jokes are genres: genres help us write by establishing features for conveying certain kinds of content. In an academic essay a confident and authoritative tone the real housewives reflects the values of current. If you feel strongly about your topic and are writing an argument that tries to persuade your attitude to feel the same way, your stance and your purpose naturally fit together.