Eight Essential Terms in Writing
Audience: An audience is a person or group of individuals to whom the writer is trying to address. A writer uses a particular style of language, content, and tone according to what the audience knows. In the book, Writing about Writing, Keith Grant-Davie wrote a piece which discussed audiences. He explains the precise meaning of an audience as, "1) Any people who happen to hear or read a discourse, 2) a set of readers or listeners who form part of an external rhetorical situation, 3) the audience that the writer seems to have in mind, 4) the audience roles suggested by the discourse itself" (355). Everything, whether written or spoken, have an audience.
Context: Context is the circumstances that create the …show more content…
In the book, Writing about Writing, John Swales defines discourse communities in six characteristics, “1. A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals”, “2. A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among 12 its members”, “3. A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to 14 provide information and feedback”, “4. A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres 15 in the communicative furtherance of its aims”, “5. In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has acquired some 16 specific lexeis”, and “6. A discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable 17 degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise” (220-222). Discourse communities are important because each set of goals or ways of communicating can help improve social or writing …show more content…
In literature, genres are categories of literary composition. Genres can be determined by tone, content, or literary technique. John Swales expresses that “Genres are types of texts that are recognizable to readers and writers and that meet the needs of the rhetorical situations in which they function” (Writing about Writing 216). Genres are important in literature because they give compositional pieces structure and something to build on.
Knowledge: Knowledge is the information, facts, and skills gained through education or experience; the practical or theoretical understanding of a subject. The piece Reflection in the Writing Classroom states “But eventually, of course, our knowledge depends upon the living relationship between what we see going on and ourselves” (Yancey 1). Knowing the definition of knowledge can help when trying to reflect on a topic.
Reflection: Reflection is a mental process; it is the contemplation or long consideration of a subject. “Accordingly, reflection is a critical component of learning and of writing specifically; articulating what we have learned for ourselves is a key process in that learning-in both school learning and out-of school learning” (Yancey 7). Reflections are great ways to see what knowledge you have
Audience: An audience is a person or group of individuals to whom the writer is trying to address. A writer uses a particular style of language, content, and tone according to what the audience knows. In the book, Writing about Writing, Keith Grant-Davie wrote a piece which discussed audiences. He explains the precise meaning of an audience as, "1) Any people who happen to hear or read a discourse, 2) a set of readers or listeners who form part of an external rhetorical situation, 3) the audience that the writer seems to have in mind, 4) the audience roles suggested by the discourse itself" (355). Everything, whether written or spoken, have an audience.
Context: Context is the circumstances that create the …show more content…
In the book, Writing about Writing, John Swales defines discourse communities in six characteristics, “1. A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals”, “2. A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among 12 its members”, “3. A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to 14 provide information and feedback”, “4. A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres 15 in the communicative furtherance of its aims”, “5. In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has acquired some 16 specific lexeis”, and “6. A discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable 17 degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise” (220-222). Discourse communities are important because each set of goals or ways of communicating can help improve social or writing …show more content…
In literature, genres are categories of literary composition. Genres can be determined by tone, content, or literary technique. John Swales expresses that “Genres are types of texts that are recognizable to readers and writers and that meet the needs of the rhetorical situations in which they function” (Writing about Writing 216). Genres are important in literature because they give compositional pieces structure and something to build on.
Knowledge: Knowledge is the information, facts, and skills gained through education or experience; the practical or theoretical understanding of a subject. The piece Reflection in the Writing Classroom states “But eventually, of course, our knowledge depends upon the living relationship between what we see going on and ourselves” (Yancey 1). Knowing the definition of knowledge can help when trying to reflect on a topic.
Reflection: Reflection is a mental process; it is the contemplation or long consideration of a subject. “Accordingly, reflection is a critical component of learning and of writing specifically; articulating what we have learned for ourselves is a key process in that learning-in both school learning and out-of school learning” (Yancey 7). Reflections are great ways to see what knowledge you have