ENGL 3502: 03/08/05
Factual Text
Field -
stable obvious fields (topic) -> remain the same thoughout (usually)
Tenure -
(audience, readership, relationship between reader and writer)
text implies a reader
*examined prior to writing a text.
-> thought of tenure throughout writing
before writing know your audience's:
- age
- education
- demographic
- interest (required knowledge in topic)
- cultural background
- gender
- lifestyle/money
- ideologies
- location
Finding Audience:
* Identify publications readership ->do they correlate?
* use writing techniques to place the writer within the position of the reader.
serious
objective
impersonal
informal
humorous
personal
opinionated
-> mood in clauses
- declaratives
- interogatives
- ellipsis
- imperatives
-> vary subject of clause
it/she/he/noun
pronouns...you/we/i
-> express attitude
judgement/opinion/emotion -> creating relationship
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