Lesson 1523 of 1524
Scripting for the Public Forum: Writing to Speak
Articulate how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposes
Practice this chapterArticulate how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposes The genre of this chapter is script writing.
A genre is a type of composition that uses specific features, follows a particular style or format, and is shaped by the author’s purpose , or what the author wants to accomplish. In a script, the purpose is what the author wants to communicate to the audience and wants the audience to think about or do after the speech.
genre — a type of composition that uses specific features, follows a particular style or format, and is shaped by the author’s purpose , or what the author wants to accomplish. purpose — what the author wants to communicate to the audience and wants the audience to think about or do after the speech.
Be able to identify and apply rhetorical concepts such as shifts in voice, diction, tone, formality, design, medium, and structure appropriate to a speech; apply appropriate genre conventions for structure, tone, mechanics, format, and design in writing speech.
Worked example
What does “genre” mean in Scripting for the Public Forum: Writing to Speak?
- 1Use the wording this chapter gives for genre.
- 2The book says: a type of composition that uses specific features, follows a particular style or format, and is shaped by the author’s purpose , or what the author wants to accomplish.
- 3Do not use the meaning of purpose. That term means what the author wants to communicate to the audience and wants the audience to think about or do after the speech.
Result: a type of composition that uses specific features, follows a particular style or format, and is shaped by the author’s purpose , or what the author wants to accomplish
Why. That is the meaning this chapter gives for genre.
Do not swap genre and purpose. genre means a type of composition that uses specific features, follows a particular style or format, and is shaped by the author’s purpose , or what the author wants to accomplish. purpose means what the author wants to communicate to the audience and wants the audience to think about or do after the speech.
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