Here's a great video that Dr. Mary Silva (a UCBS graduate from Education: Language, Literacy, and Composition Studies -- like I'll hopefully be sometime within the next 30 years...) put together. I love it, and I hope you will too.
Side note: do you already feel like you're getting "hit over the head" with genre in this course? Well, get used to it, my friends! To become better writers, we've got to become better thinkers. Thinking about the tenets of rhetoric -- audience, purpose, context -- as well as the different genres (and thus, conventions) in which they exist will help us do that. Trust me, in Writing 2 we're shooting for your long-term writing development, and this approach is going to help you get there.
Side note: do you already feel like you're getting "hit over the head" with genre in this course? Well, get used to it, my friends! To become better writers, we've got to become better thinkers. Thinking about the tenets of rhetoric -- audience, purpose, context -- as well as the different genres (and thus, conventions) in which they exist will help us do that. Trust me, in Writing 2 we're shooting for your long-term writing development, and this approach is going to help you get there.
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