An
important concept for this course is Literacy. Literacy is the ability
to read and write. Without literacy, we would not have an awesome English class
to go to Monday through Thursday. If we did not have literacy, I am not sure
how the world would function. There would be no street signs, no texting,
emailing, social media, menus, or letters. People would be lost in the world. Literacy
allows us to be able to participate in the discourse series. Literacy allows
the same nation to communicate with each other. People use literacy to describe
their feelings, days, and what is going on in their lives. Without literacy we
would not know anything about the past, because people wrote down their
discoveries, and without those we would not know about illnesses, the
presidents, or the theory of evolution. ~Michaela
There are two types of discourse, primary and secondary.
Primary discourse is influenced by your family. How and where they brought you
up and what you believe in is part of primary discourse. As well as morals and
beliefs. Secondary discourse is what you encounter outside of your primary
discourse. The thoughts and beliefs you encounter are interpreted by your
primary discourse. The things you were presented or aware of during primary
discourse allow for you to view certain things certain ways. ~Nick
Exigence is a problem or demand. There are multiple types of exigence
like rhetorical exigence and a just a regular exigence. Usually they are
presented to an audience and it is up to the audience to solve it. ~Nick
When
writing an organized, audience-focused paper, you have to be able to analyze
rhetorical situations. A rhetorical situation has the context of an event that
consists of a rhetor, audience, and constraints. A rhetor is the speaker who
addresses the audience by creating situations by making issues noticeable. The
exigence is the problem/issue that exists. The audience is very attentive and
open to learning about the exigence because it can be changed by human
interactions. They function as mediators of change. Writing cannot be
interesting if it does not have a set of constraints. Constraints are made up
of persons, events, objects, and relations that limit decisions and
action. Overall, writing a good paper is
tied together by rhetorical situations because that is how writing flows and
hooks the reader. ~Lexi
One of the major concepts of this course I believe is writing.
Writing has ultimately been the center topic that everything we have done comes
down to. Such as how certain things affect our understanding of writing or what
roles it has writing taken in our life so far. Writing is defined as the
activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper and composing text. But
through this course, we have learned that it is much more than that. The
definition of writing can be anything that we want it to be because we are the
writers, we get to make our own rules and choose to convey our thoughts through
any form we choose. Writing influences and informs in more drastic ways than
speaking ever can, it spreads faster and stays out in the world forever,
attracting attention by each person who reads it. As we have studied writing in
this course as one of our major concepts, we now have realized the deeper
meaning of writing. ~Kate
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