Glossary

Key Terms used for English 006

• Genre
  • Is the classification given to a form of media to quickly explain the nature of its content.
• Audience
  • A group of people that consume the content presented by the creator.
• Rhetorical Situation
  • The use of Audience, Genre, purpose, and context in conjunction when writing.
• Discourse Community
  • A group of people that share a common purpose and communicate to reach that purpose.
• Knowledge
  • Information that is known to a person.
• Purpose
  • The motivation behind the writing or the end-goal.
• Context
  • Information that clarifies the meaning of a word or situation.
• Reflection
  • looking back at previous works and evaluating how much you have changed or grown.