ENG100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rhetorical Situation, Jargon
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The rhetorical situation: why am i writing, who am i writing for, which genre am i writing for, different conventions, ex. Female riding apps--->article, rs gives context: ex. Beer ad---> copy (writing designed for advertisements), colloquial tone , casual style (sentence fragments: ex. Narrow audience, use of jargon, formal no contractions, argumentive/persuasive. Identifying purpose: marking up text, mapping the text, outlining the text, ex. Close reading/critical reading: uses small details to support larger conclusion, method of gathering evidence, analyzes specific quotations, claim and close reading evidence. Identify an interesting, strange or important detail: explain the larger significance of that detail; how it proves. Inductive: specific to general: deductive: general to specific, how to explain detail, ex, face-blindness (pg. Grammar: nouns (proper capitalized, pronouns act as a substitute of a noun (i, her, myself, who, somebody, this , antecedent is the word replaced by the pronoun, pitfall: pronouns with unclear antecedents "we went to the gallery.
