Final Project, English 101

Rhetorical Knowledge

Gain experience reading and composing in several genres to understand how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposesDefine:

This means I have read and written several types of essays and I know what readers expect for each type.

Explain:

In this class I’ve written a C/C essay, a RBA, a problem solution essay, and more.  In the C/C essay, readers are expecting to see things being compared, contrasted, or both, and here is a quote from my C/C essay that shows me doing exactly that: “…………………………….”

In an RBA, readers expect to see research, and some type of persuasion or argument writing.  Here is a quote from my RBA that shows how I incorporated research, which one of the conventions of this essay:  “…………………………………………”

Lastly, I wrote a P/S essay, and I identified a problem and offered a solution.  In that essay I wrote, “……………………………….” and all of these quotes show that I know what readers expect from each type of different essay.

Develop facility in responding to a variety of situations and contexts calling for purposeful shifts in voice, tone, level of formality, design, medium, and/or structure

Define:

This means I can write many different things and I can change the way I sound and the structure of the piece based on what I am writing.

Explain:

In my journals, I employ a familiar voice and lower level of formality or professionalism.  They don’t have to be academic, because they are just for me.  Here’s an example of a journal entry where I am using slang and abbreviating, something I’d never do in a professional essay.  I wrote: “………………………………………” in response to that day’s question.  I sound completely different when I am writing for an academic audience and in my first literary response, about the poem “Daddy,” I attempted to sound more formal and I used separate paragraphs to designate intro, body, and conclusion paragraphs.  Here’s a place where I’m quoting the poem and then writing about it with academic language, which is vastly different from my journal: “………………………………………..”  It’s clear I can change not only the way I sound, but also the way things look based upon what I asked to write.