Blog post #8
Joshua C. Cook English 1001(006)
Grant-Davie defines purpose in relationship to writing as the exigence. The exigence of writing is the why or the what that spurred the writer to action. This is a pretty common point of view to have, so it hasn’t change how I see purpose in relationship to writing. Purpose does however connect to many of the terms we use in class. These terms being rhetorical situation, genre, audience.
Rhetorical situation as we all know is created by an exigence (or purpose). Genre is shaped or chosen by the purpose, for you wouldn’t write an essay on the habits of tree frogs if your purpose was to apply for a tax brake from the government. Audience is what you want to reach or effect with your purpose. One term I don’t see a clear connection with is reflection, unless your purpose was to reflect or learn.
Marissa Penzanto’s purpose in her essay is to analyze the revision and writing habits of her four research participants and compare the information to Sommers claims. Penzanto does a remarkable job incorporating her primary information by explaining how she went about conducting her experiment and giving use a look at her thought process and how the participants could reflect and pick out what needed revisions. My main question about MA2 after reading Penzanto’s essay is how I locate a discourse community. This could be interesting research in its self how one finds and enters a community, depending on what the community is. The way Pensanto describes her finding the community and writer is very natural, but what would be the results if one tried to infiltrate a community?
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