Writing and Reading in Different Rhetorical Situations

Composing Processes for Different Texts
· Narrative framed inside rhetorical situation: what’s the exigence?
Would you like to include an image, and if so, of what, and why?
Do as Hemingway did: make a note about where you would go next with this text.
Invention?
Reading?
Media?
· Report
If you changed the audience for this report—to an administrator—how would you change the report itself?
Invention?
Reading?
Media?
· Review
Begin by putting rhetorical situation at the top of the draft
Genre inside another genre (review inside a letter)
Invention?
Reading?
Media?
· Free Choice/Wild Card
Invention?
Reading?
Media?

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How do you read
A cartoon?
A letter
The TV guide
A film review
A professional article
A book for your book club


How do you read a student text in the same genre?

What is your philosophy of response?
The Rhetorical Situation of Response