Informal Writing Assignment
Keith Grant-Davie: "Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents." You should produce at least 500 words in responding to these questions.
1. This article covers a lot of the same territory as Laura Bolin Carroll's "Backpacks vs. Briefcases." Do a quick inventory: what does Grant-Davie repeat from Carroll? What does he add that's new?
2. What does Carroll provide that Grant-Davie doesn't?
3. Consider a time when
you
needed to address a situation that you felt was a problem--"a situation that both calls for and might be resolved by discourse." Take a few minutes to think about that, and select
one
instance when you attempted to resolve a problem through language. Briefly summarize the situation, and then analyze it using the three questions provide by Grant-Davie: What [was] the discourse about? Why [was] the discourse needed? and What [was] the discourse trying to accomplish?
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Informal Writing Assignment on Rhetorical Situations
1. Informal Writing Assignment
Keith Grant-Davie: "Rhetorical Situations and Their
Constituents." You should produce at least 500 words in
responding to these questions.
1. This article covers a lot of the same territory as Laura Bolin
Carroll's "Backpacks vs. Briefcases." Do a quick inventory:
what does Grant-Davie repeat from Carroll? What does he add
that's new?
2. What does Carroll provide that Grant-Davie doesn't?
3. Consider a time when
you
needed to address a situation that you felt was a problem--"a
situation that both calls for and might be resolved by
discourse." Take a few minutes to think about that, and select
one
instance when you attempted to resolve a problem through
language. Briefly summarize the situation, and then analyze it
using the three questions provide by Grant-Davie: What [was]
the discourse about? Why [was] the discourse needed? and What
[was] the discourse trying to accomplish?
![Informal Writing Assignment
Keith Grant-Davie: "Rhetorical Situations and Their
Constituents." You should produce at least 500 words in
responding to these questions.
1. This article covers a lot of the same territory as Laura Bolin
Carroll's "Backpacks vs. Briefcases." Do a quick inventory:
what does Grant-Davie repeat from Carroll? What does he add
that's new?
2. What does Carroll provide that Grant-Davie doesn't?
3. Consider a time when
you
needed to address a situation that you felt was a problem--"a
situation that both calls for and might be resolved by
discourse." Take a few minutes to think about that, and select
one
instance when you attempted to resolve a problem through
language. Briefly summarize the situation, and then analyze it
using the three questions provide by Grant-Davie: What [was]
the discourse about? Why [was] the discourse needed? and What
[was] the discourse trying to accomplish?](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/informalwritingassignmentkeithgrant-davierhetoricalsituatio-221128033606-be463df4/85/informal-writing-assignmentkeith-grantdavie-rhetorical-situatiodocx-1-320.jpg)
