Yancey Post Discusion

Discusion post #8

Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006)

Reflection on Yancey’s work I’ve learned that reflection is fundamental to learning. I’ve also learned from my peers and from being in this class that major terms like reflection have connections. The major terms that we have in the class so far includes Audience, Exigence, Genre, Rhetorical situation, and now Reflection. How Reflection is related to these terms so vague of a long shot at best.

Reflection being the process of learning and the product obviously relates to the terms in the class through learning all that these terms encompass. The from the term Rhetorical situation we reflected on it and related It to genre. The way we did this is by reflection on what genre is “traits or restraints that are use to categorize writing”. Realizing that rhetorical situations had restraints we equated it to a genre. If that is correct is up to how one defines genre.

I’ve notice that in this class every thing is built up one thing after another. starting with audience (The reason to write) and then going on to the substance, genre, rhetoric, exigences. Leading me to believe that there will be some sort of payoff, like a capstone to this foundation. Something or some term that leads writing to an inevitable conclusion. Which I find intriguing, because I’ve always looked a writing as more of a cycle than as a structure.