My first assignment...

Raymond Page

The Bedford Book of Genres defines genre as a compositions kind, category, or sort. The book goes on to say how genre is an organizational tool to help categorized different types of composition. By reading further, the book explains that genres are not fixed; some compositions overlap or change depending on how people use the genre. Both the Bedford Book and Bitzer talk about rhetorical situation, but Bitzer goes into much greater depth while explaining rhetorical situation. The Bedford book explains that rhetorical situation is the context in which you create composition. Bitzer expands on this by saying that the situation creates the discourse. This means that a certain set of conditions will arise prompting a response communicated with purpose, or rhetoric. The last genre I composed in was a presentation I did over summer to a group of children. The presentation included some general rules about upcoming activities and the purpose of those activities, as well as some other general information. The presentation consisted of text, pictures, and a video. This composition was presented Digitally and face-to-face. Similarly to Kerry Dirk’s explaination of the country song lyrics, I used past knowledge of how informative presentations should look and be given. I had to think about my audience as well because being kids I knew that it would be more difficult to keep their attention. In hopes of keeping the audience engaged I tried to limit the words on each slide and put in a lot of fun and interesting pictures.

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