Key Concept Check In

We have went over different concepts, audience, rhetorical situation, genre, reflection, discourse community, and knowledge.

Audience- are the people that read what an author has written, the author has control over what, and how he writes to aim to different types of audience.

Rhetorical situation- are caused by an event that has actions to bring significant modifications to the situation. For example a student needs help with an assignment, they would go to the teacher for the help, and that’s a rhetorical situation.

Genre- all the work that is put into specific categories of similar style or form.

Reflection- reflecting over what you first knew and after what you have learned.

Discourse community- is a group of people with the same interest in a subject or share the same knowledge, they have their own words they use, that a person needs to understand in order to be apart of it. The community have guidelines to what makes them a discourse community.

Knowledge- is the information we learn from experiences, that we can be learned by someone with that knowledge or can be found, and discovered to be taught.