Friday, September 6, 2013

1.4 Purpose

Today’s lesson will be about:

Objectives
You will be able to do:
  • Explain the distinction and relationship of audience and purpose.
  • Define different kinds of purposes to writing.
  • Apply principle of audience and purpose to revising and improving diagnostic essay.


Attendance

Warm-up Discussion
How does audience relate to communication?
Reflective Essay #1

What?
For whom?
Why?

Different Audience and Different Purpose
In groups, click your assigned number  and read writings first. 
And then, discuss two questions below.
(You might write the answer down. After group discussion, we will share each example writing and share your answers for two discussion questions.)


Questions:
Who might be the audience of your example writing? Why?
What purpose might be for your example writing? Why?

Purpose, Audience and Tone

Homework
1. Engineering Activity #1
Let’s look back your diagnostic essay with new perspectives. Write a paragraph about two parts of questions below. (10 to 15 lines are good.)

A. Who did you think the audience for your diagnostic essay? How can you tell your audience from your essay?

B. What is your purpose for your diagnostic essay? (E.g. to persuade audience, to provide information, to solve a problem, etc) Do you think your purpose was executed effectively to your audience? Why or why not? (Think these two questions based on communication model.)


*Name the file as audience and purpose.

*Submit it on Dropbox in Engineering Activity.

*Due date: Sep, 8 (Sun) at 11:55 p.m. sharp.


2. Writer's Help
Do 1st exercise, called Grammar.
Due date: Sep, 6 (Fri) at 11:55 p.m. sharp.


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