CCT110H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Euphemism, University Of Toronto Mississauga
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Every time you sit down to write, you have to make these kinds of choices. Genre: what type of text you are writing. Purpose: what you are trying to accomplish. Media and design: how you want your writing to look. Genre - a type of writing where each type of writing requires particular rhetorical moves. Types of genres: memoir, essay, report, review etc. Make a choice of genre by analyzing the rhetorical situation. Each of the elements - genre, purpose, audience, voice and design - are interrelated. Purpose - decide what you are trying to accomplish. Audience - figure out your audience you are trying to persuade to. Keep up to date on how the purpose or audiences of genres sometimes change or shift. Argue a story (writing to explore) on an event (writing to inform a book or analyze a poem (writing to analyze) about a fact/opinion/thought (writing to argue)