Increase your ability to read rhetorical situations and make rhetorical choices in writing
Increase your ability to read rhetorical situations and make rhetorical choices in writing
Know what questions to ask when entering new rhetorical situations in order to adjust your approach to writing to meet that situation
Build your ability to collaborate in communities of writers and readers
Take risks in new writing situations
Increase your control of situation‑appropriate conventions of writing
Assignment Description and Instructions
As we have discovered in the last month, writing has no set definition and everyone approaches it differently. Knowing that, how do we write successfully? How do you write for college and for your chosen professions? In short, you must understand and respond to the situations you’re writing in, from, and for. This is to engage in rhetoric. One of the tasks of this course is to give you beginning understanding of rhetoric as a theory of communication and to explore its implications.
As a college writer, you need to make rhetorical reading and writing a normal habit. To read texts rhetorically is to read them as if they are people talking to you, people with motivations that may not always be explicit but are always present. It means talking about not only what a text says or what it means, but what it does (start a war? Make a friend laugh? Call attention to a problem? Strike fear? Make a person fall in love?). When you read a text trying to figure out what it does or why a person would go to the trouble of writing it, you’re reading and responding rhetorically.
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