The cereal box assignment taught me how companies will do just about anything to sell their products. For example, they know that people who want to eat only healthy food will pay more for it, so they make their products more expensive and colorful; that sort of tricks people into thinking that they are getting a good deal. I think eating healthy is right, but I don’t think it is right for companies to put an oat-based cereal in a colorful, slogan-filled box and charge people four times more for it than they would pay for plain oatmeal, which would be much better for them. When doing the bicycle sales assignment for clowns, I used the “rhetorical situation” from our book.; I carefully considered my text, my context, my audience and …show more content…
When I wrote for my friends and family I never thought about this “rhetorical situation.” But now I see that it is really just a fancy name for what every clear writer does. They consider who they are writing to and how to use words effectively to get their point across. Text refers to the words we use to convey a message. Sometimes we don’t use them correctly; if we are in a rush we may use the wrong words and not really say what we mean, If, however, we put enough time and thought into everything we write, people won’t get confused by what we …show more content…
An example of this is if I were to write about a healthy life style my stance on it would be moderate rather than “health fanatic.” Because everyone has a different stance on everything, you as a communicator need to take make your position clear so that there is no confusion. The audience are the people you are writing to. In the bicycle sales assignment my audience was clowns. In this assignment, my audience is my teacher. When I am out of school my audience will be a future workplace, customers, my friends, my family, and myself. Context is considering your surrounding a piece of information with text that clear its meaning, relevancy, a background picture, and where a piece of information came from or what or who is involved. The context is why news reporters or newspapers have headlines, who said what, where they got their information, and they also give readers a background picture of what they are reporting. Writing style is the words, the sentence structure, and the paragraphs you choose to use to convey your meaning. The hardest part of writing style for me is correct sentence structure and when to use paragraphs. Words used to be hard for me, but now I have a better