ENGL 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Sexual Orientation
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The purpose in one"s writing can help determine: genre, audience, organization, style. Some forms of purpose are: to entertain, to inform, to persuade, to demonstrate. While coming up with your purpose for writing, one should think about: strategy, genre, stance, medium, design. Your audience can influence your purpose and the content in your writing: what you write, how much you write, how you phrase it, choice of genre (memo, essay, email, note, speech) As a student, your audience is most often your professors and instructors. Thinking about your audience includes their: background, education, life experiences. Interests: motivations, demographic information, race, gender, sexual orientation, occupations, religion, economic status, political views, bias, special interests, political party, previous knowledge of the topic, relationship with you. Informal/formal: expectations, response, preferences, organization, design, genre. Genre: a kind of writing. (ex: letters, profiles, reports, position papers, poems, blog posts, instructions, parodies, jokes: can change the presentation of the content.
