English writing skills (week 3 group 2)

This week is the second lecture week of English Writing Skills class. I had learned chapter two of this subject which is audience and purpose. The definition of audience is an author's audience is the particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing. Everytime you write something must have an audience. Before you start writing, ask yourself a few questions. Who is this for? What do you know about them?

There are four types of audience that I learned in this class. The first type is yourself. If you write something to yourself, there are no formalities needed. The second type of audience is personal friend. When you write something as chatting with your friend, this also can be informal unless your friend is requesting formal writing. The third type of audience is a person that you don't know personally but you know something about them. For an example, your school principal, lecturer, manager or others. When you are writing something to them, you should write in formal and your content should not be unreasonable like chatting with your principal. The fourth audience is remote audience. The writing must always be explicit and is likely to be formal for an example writing an essay in your examination. The audience also separate to two group, that is primary audience and secondary audience. Primary audience is the main person that you writing for. For an example, you are sending an email to a person, this person is your primary audience. When you carbon copy(cc) someone, they will be your secondary audience.

After you identify your audience, proceed to the second step which is understanding your purpose. The definition of purpose in writing is the writer's main reason for writing. There are four main reason that why author start writing something. The first reason is describe. When the writer is trying to give more information about one person, place or thing, the author purpose are describe. After that, the second purpose is entertain. Entertain is the author trying to tell a story to somebody. Beside of that, explain is also one of the purpose. Explain is when an author provides facts about a particular subject or tell reader how to do something. Last but not least, persuade is also one of the purpose. When you are trying to get reader to do something or believe something, the purpose of you writing is persuade.

One of the main topic in this chapter is rhetorical triangle. The three points on the rhetorical triangle relate directly to the three classic appeals you should consider when communicating. The first point is ethos. Ethos is building trust by establishing their credibility and authority. After that, pathos is also one of the point. Pathos is appealing to emotion by connecting with your audience through their values and interests. Last but not least, logos is appealing to intelligence with well-constructed and clearly argued ideas.

After the class, I understand what my writing purpose and know who is my targeted audience. Come to the tutorial class, we have quiz at the beginning of the class. After the quiz, we form a group and go through the group activities. I learned a lot in this chapter. I hope the next chapter will more excited. Thank you Ms Thinessha.

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