For the first major writing assignment, I will have to write
an informational essay about the role of writing in my career path, accounting.
The audience is a group of high school students who are wondering about what
the career path involves. The purpose of this piece will be to inform the group
of high school students about what the career path entails. As this will be an
informational report the genre will be an essay. The stance I will use in this piece is a
serious and thoughtful mood to this report.
I want the high school students to know that I have put time into what I
am saying. The media will be a printed
essay.
Monday, August 31, 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Rhetorical Situations
During my college prep English course I was assigned to
write a persuasive essay. For my topic I
chose to argue the point of compensating collegiate athletes. The main purpose of this essay was to
convince those who did not believe college athletes should receive extra compensation
beyond a scholarship. Because of this
purpose, I chose to focus primarily on the sports that produced an enormous
profit for the universities, men’s basketball and football. Although the purpose was for those who don’t
agree with the same point as me, I knew that my audience would be my English teacher
and the other students in my class. Knowing
that my teacher and most of my classmates did not know much abut college sports
and what athletes received in a scholarship, this forced me to include a great
deal of background about what is included in a scholarship and what the
university made in comparison to what the players received. With a topic like the one I chose to write
about, there are many possible stances that I could have taken. This could be beneficiall, however I believe that this actually
got me into trouble while writing this essay. I jumped between different stances and did not do a great job of establishing
the attitude I would use to convince others of my view. As this is a persuasive
essay I wrote this in essay form, using an introduction followed by several
different points. These points then had pieces
of data and specific facts to back them up. For media, the most efficient and best way to deliver this message was
through a traditional typed out essay.
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
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