Comp Notes

This episode provides an overview of the concept of writing as a process.  Future episodes will unpack the different stages of that process.

Transcript available through this link.

Additional Resources:  

• Purdue OWL's "The Writing Process"
• Sarah M. Lacy and Melanie Gagich's "The Writing Process" (Note: This is a chapter from an online textbook).
• Wilmer Writing Center Online Writing Lab's "The Writing Process"
• The University of Kansas' "The Writing Process"
• Comparative Media Studies at MIT's "Resources for Writers: The Writing Process"
• Joshua Sampson's "Writing Craft:  Writing as a Recursive Process"

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This episode focuses on context, the element of rhetorical situation that includes the factors going on in the world that can impact our text.  In particular, we'll focus on time, place, community, and culture.

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Additional Resources:

• Purdue OWL's "Setting." 
• "Discourse Community" from College Composition and Communication (Note: The link leads to a pdf file.)
• Dan Melzer's "Understanding Discourse Communities" from Writing Spaces (Note: The link leads to a pdf copy of the essay.) 
• Wikipedia "High-context and low-context cultures."   
• Silva Rhetoricae's "Kairos" (Note:  Kairos is a rhetorical term meaning the appropriateness of a piece of communication.  Context affects appropriateness.)

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This episode focuses on the audience component of rhetorical situation.

Transcript available through this link.

Additional Resources:

• "Audience" on Silva Rhetoricae
• E. Shelley Reid's "Ten Ways to Think about Writing: Metaphoric Musing for College Students" in Writing Spaces, Volume 2.  (Pay particular attention to section 4)
• Mere Rhetoric's "Audience Invoked-Audience Addressed (New and Improved)" This podcast summarizes Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede's article "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked," which I also refer to.
• "Audience" poster from College Composition and Communication (Note: the link leads to a pdf copy of the poster).
• "Audience" from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center.
• WriteCast Podcast's "All About Audience."  This podcast is from Walden University; this episode focuses on audience.

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This episode focuses on purpose, the element of rhetorical situation that defines our goals.

Transcript available through this link.

Additional Resources:

• Purdue OWL "Purposes"
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center's "Understanding the Assignment."  I refer to this page in the episode, and I assign it to my students as an introduction to how to interpret an assignment sheet and determine the purpose of your text.
• Swathmore College's "Understanding Your Assignment"

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This episode provides an overview of the concept rhetorical situation.  We'll cover the individual elements of the situation in future episodes.

Transcript available through this link.

Additional Resources:
Note: Some of these resources may use different terms than I used in the episode.

• Purdue OWL's "Elements of Rhetorical Situations"
• Illinois Writers Workshop "Understanding the Rhetorical Situation"
• WAC Clearinghouse's "What Should I Know about Rhetorical Situation?"
• College Composition and Communication's "Poster: Rhetorical Situation" (Note: This link leads to a pdf document).
• Silva Rhetoricae's "Rhetorical Situation"
• Mere Rhetoric podcast episode "Rhetorical Situation (New and Improved)"

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This episode describes the purpose and goals of this podcast, along with my plans for how the episodes will generally run.

Transcript available through this link.

Additional Resources

• Purdue OWL:  This is one of the best known and respected online resources for learning about writing and research.
• Writing Spaces: Writing Spaces is a series of online textbooks containing essays on different aspects of writing and research.  I'm expecting in future episodes to link to specific essays that cover the same topics as an episode, but I wanted to go ahead and share it now.
• Bad Ideas about Writing:  This online book contains essays that challenge commonly hold stereotypes about writing, all written for students and non-specialists.   I'm expecting in future episodes to link to specific essays that cover the same topics as an episode, but I wanted to go ahead and share it now. 
• Framework for Success in Post-Secondary Writing: This statement was developed by the Council of Writing Program Administrators, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the National Writing Project.  All three organizations are well-respected for supporting good writing practice.  The framework describes habits of mind and rhetorical skills linked to success in college.  The link leads to a summary of the framework; you can download a copy of the full report on the same page.

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