Types of Writing

In Part One of Rhetorical Situations, the first chapter is about the purpose of your writing. There are many purposes of writing such as persuasion, informing, entertaining and many others. It's important to know the purpose so you can word things the right way. In the second chapter, they discuss audience. I think that audience is one of the most important parts in writing because if you don't know your audience, you could offend someone! The next point they talk about is the genres of writing. I learned that basically any type of writing is a genre, from letters to jokes. Another part of the chapter was about stance. This is how you come across to your reader, your attitude of the piece. The last part of the chapter was about media/design. We use many things to communicate such as the tone of our voice, our body language and all the technologies.