Writing 2111F/G Lecture 5: Unit 5

• School: Western University
• Department: Writing
• Course: Writing 2111F/G
• Professor: Melanie Chambers

Document Summary

Back to expected reader reaction: negative ( bad news ) messages are defined precisely by the fact that we, as writers, expect that our reader(s) will be disappointed and/or angry with the information conveyed in the message. Again (pages 182-3), this central fact conditions our primary and secondary purposes and, more specifically, the rhetorical pattern we will use. As noted on page 183, in many circumstances requiring a negative message the direct approach (from chapter 7) is entirely appropriate. Pages 183 186 (with figure 8. 2 on page 185) gives you an outline of those kinds of circumstances, and a guide to how to organize negative messages. We"ll come back to this below, by taking a brief look at exercise 8. 1 (page 198). That is the situation you" would face in the statstar" scenario, and we"ll turn specifically to that case in a moment.