“negotiate your own writing goals and audience expectations regarding conventions of genre, medium, and rhetorical situation”    For every assignment, I had to evaluate and negotiate my writing goals and audience expectations depending on the genre, medium, and rhetorical situation. I always thought about the best way to convince the audience, what type of tone and diction I should use to get my point across, what medium will be most effective for this specific genre, is my writing appropriate considering this rhetorical situation. I think that this became a natural process as the semester progressed, from the first assignment, the …

“enhance strategies for reading, drafting, revising, editing, and self-assessment” I can confidently say that throughout this course I have fully enhanced and exercised strategies for reading, drafting, revising, editing, and self assessment through every single assignment. Before each major assignment I always read and took notes on the genre from the textbook, completed genre analysis on former student samples in order to understand the correct form of the assignment, written a first draft, edited and revised my draft, and then finalized it. Figure 1 shows the extensive editing history on my memo, which required a lot of revision because it …

“acknowledge your and others’ range of linguistic differences as resources, and draw on those resources to develop rhetorical sensibility”   At first I was a bit confused about this learning outcome, because I did not understand how I could use “linguistic differences” as resources. However, I realized that through group work, my peers and classmates have done this unintentionally. My group members were from similar majors as me, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, but our diverse backgrounds meant that we had different experiences, strengths and weaknesses when it came to writing. As someone with a specialty in English, I was …

Media is important because the way a piece of text is formatted, presented, or distributed can have a large impact on its effectiveness. The media allows for different features to be utilized in the author’s favor, and it’s important to take advantage of those features. For example, for my group’s Engineering Proposal powerpoint presentation, we could’ve used more visual aids, like photos and diagrams, in order to show our audience what exactly our Emergency SOS Alarm will look like. Since our media was a powerpoint, using images along with brief bullets of your main points is the best way to …

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