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Writing a Rhetorical Reflection

Purpose

One of the final documents you have to submit this semester is a Rhetorical Reflection. In this document, you will want to explain the decisions you have made to influence your audience. In today's class the instructor will provide some strategies for writing the rhetorical reflection.

Freewrite: What you have learmned

Look over the comments the instructor wrote on your IMRAD essay. Also think about what you have learned about writing that you had not previously known.

Compose an email draft addressed to yourself and the instructor. For ten minutes you will compose this this email to address the following:

What have you learned about writing in this course?
Create a list of items that you will need to remember to address in your writing for the next major writing experience you have (e.g., 200-level writing course, "W" course, workplace writing)

Note that this is an email draft; therefore, you will not be sending it to anyone immediately. Instead wait to send this email until after your grade has been submitted for this class. This way the email cannot be used to influence your grade. And you can use this email as a guideline when you take your 200-level writing course or you take a "W" course in your major.

Discussion: Debriefing on the IMRAD essays

The instructor will talk about the following topics in relation to the IMRAD essay:

Writing in the past tense
Being detailed with your methodology
Reporting your results

Activity: Rhetorical Reflection

Create and fill in the following table

Audience

Media

In this space, answer the following questions:

Who is your target audeince?
What do you know about this audience?
What do they value? What motivates them?
How socially engaged are these people?
How do they usually access information?
How do you know that answer to these questions (if you cannot address this question confidently for any of the points above, you should do some research to answer it)?

In this space, answer the following questions:

What media do you plan to use?
What are the generic expectations for that media?
How easy will the text you create be to access for your target audience? Will you have to distribute the text? Or will your audience be expected to find it?
How might you increase the text's accessibility?
How do you know that answer to these questions (if you cannot address this question confidently for any of the points above, you should do some research to answer it)?

Audience

Media

In this space, answer the following questions:

Who is your target audeince?

What do you know about this audience?

What do they value? What motivates them?

How socially engaged are these people?

How do they usually access information?

How do you know that answer to these questions (if you cannot address this question confidently for any of the points above, you should do some research to answer it)?

In this space, answer the following questions:

What media do you plan to use?

What are the generic expectations for that media?

How easy will the text you create be to access for your target audience? Will you have to distribute the text? Or will your audience be expected to find it?

How might you increase the text's accessibility?

How do you know that answer to these questions (if you cannot address this question confidently for any of the points above, you should do some research to answer it)?