Writing Across Genres

Writing for social change, travel writing, and digital rhetoric.

It is rare that a writer only encounters one particular genre

 in the workplace or academia. Professional Writing and Rhetoric has taught me the ability to write sucessfully through a variety of genres and contexts by being able to apply rhetorical theory as it applies to each genre. My PWR education has given me the tools that I need to think critically about the rhetorical situation whether that be writing for a non-profit on the behalf of others or writing about the trip I took through the foothills of North Carolina in travel writing. The skills that I have learned in my PWR education such as understanding your audience and being able to make a connection with them through the proper use of the rhetorical appeals ethos, pathos, and logos, understanding rhetoric as social action and ethically situated action, and understanding what attracts and holds people's attention when writing about something through both your words and visual rhetoric have all assisted me in writing successfully in other genres.

In this section I include a "My Turn" essay in the format of the ones that appear in Newsweek Magazine that I wrote in my Writing for Social Change class, my midterm assignment for Travel Writing which was to write an introduction to the website we were producing, and an example of my digital rhetoric through a blog that I created in my Introduction to PWR class as a collaborative final project. Through these I hope to demonstrate that what I have learned in PWR I can apply to essentially any piece of writing that I do.