Writing publicly to a great mass used to be limited and only available to those who were privileged enough to have the proper tools and skills to write and publish a writing, but thanks to the internet now everyone from a housewife in Mozambique who likes to share her recipes to a freelancer traveling the southeastern parts of Asia who wants to show the world his adventures can write publicly. The most preferred and common means to either write publicly or share content nowadays are Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr (blogs and etc.) and Instagram. I personally am not affiliated to any of those means and never made use of them, but I am aware that each of those tools are used differently, because of their differences such as aimed audience, level of
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After that I came to realize that understanding complex thought processes is essential especially concerning the rhetorical situation for writing to the public. I figured out that my ideal audience for a Facebook post are my family, friends, and people I know such as acquaintances, co-workers and etc. Which is very helpful to know, because this tells me that I am not bound by formal language and gives me a larger vocabulary. My purpose was to inform and to convince my audience to donate to and support the Syrian refugees and my stance was the fact that refugee help centers such as the Red Cross are overwhelmed and need help. As of the genre consisted of minimalistic text and a link leading to a donation webpage. For my metacognition I wrote about how I might offend people with my ideologies and how they might disagree with me. My Facebook post stated “Please donate to the Red Cross and help the Syrian refugees. Everyone deserves Sanctuary. LINK”. Unlike the Facebook post, my Twitter post surprisingly had more text even though they have a 140 characters restriction. My tweet said the same as the Facebook post except for the additional hashtags #Syria, #EU, #Europe, #Syrianrefugees, #Refugees, #RedCross, #Worldcrisis and #F***ISIS. Besides the post
After that I came to realize that understanding complex thought processes is essential especially concerning the rhetorical situation for writing to the public. I figured out that my ideal audience for a Facebook post are my family, friends, and people I know such as acquaintances, co-workers and etc. Which is very helpful to know, because this tells me that I am not bound by formal language and gives me a larger vocabulary. My purpose was to inform and to convince my audience to donate to and support the Syrian refugees and my stance was the fact that refugee help centers such as the Red Cross are overwhelmed and need help. As of the genre consisted of minimalistic text and a link leading to a donation webpage. For my metacognition I wrote about how I might offend people with my ideologies and how they might disagree with me. My Facebook post stated “Please donate to the Red Cross and help the Syrian refugees. Everyone deserves Sanctuary. LINK”. Unlike the Facebook post, my Twitter post surprisingly had more text even though they have a 140 characters restriction. My tweet said the same as the Facebook post except for the additional hashtags #Syria, #EU, #Europe, #Syrianrefugees, #Refugees, #RedCross, #Worldcrisis and #F***ISIS. Besides the post