Friday, January 25, 2013

Day 5: Analyzing Purpose


Objectives
Students will be able to
  • identify audience and purpose for different texts.
  • detect and incorporate tone into your writing.
  • propose revisions based on analysis of the diagnostic test.
  • review common modes of writing.
1. 2: Analyzing Purpose
PPP
Exercise: Identify audience and purpose in different texts.

Homework
Reflective Essay #1
For your first reflective essay, please consider and respond to the following prompt:

Reflect and write about your experience writing for an audience. What kind of audiences have you written for, either in English or your native language? Depending on the audience, how did you writing strategies, language and motivation differ? Which kind of writing do you prefer and why?  Is one audience more difficult for you than another? Why?

Your response should be 300-400 words, be submitted in a Microsoft Word file, 12-pt. font, Times New Roman, double-spaced, 1-inch margins on all four sides. 
Due date:  Friday, February 1, 2013, 3:00

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