Category: Topic 4: Rhetorical Situations

What does it mean and what does it do for you? Can humor and Pop Culture be properly used in writings? To what extent does it make you unserious?

Genres can take many forms depending the goal and intended audience, even if the medium may be the same there’s lots to consider in approach.

Academic writing is written in a very serious and formal method. Other ways are often frowned upon. But what if we did not use this method?

Miller and Shepherd analyze blogs as a genre, exploring their structure, style, and cultural role in blending personal expression with public interaction

Comedy and pop culture references are often seen as bad in academia. How can pop culture and comedy benefit your writing?

There are several ways that blogs can be used like to share ideas, analyze, and connect. But how can the blogs be used as genres or rhetoric?

Pop culture can take up and be shown in many different forms, especially when used in writing or in any form of expression.

My interpretation on what Dirk’s piece was about and how it not only related to genres but what I took away as important knowledge.

Young writers often find that they are uncomfortable when writing in new genres and for good reason so how can we find confidence in writing?