The Writing Situation

The Writing Situation
As we learned from our week’s readings, assessing the writing situation is an important step before beginning any writing project. This discussion asks you to contemplate the writing situation for our upcoming essay on comparing and contrasting sources.
First, you will need to review the guidelines for the Comparing and Contrasting Sources essay. These guidelines can be located under the Assignments tab in our main course menu and within the week’s Instruction folder.
Next, write a brief paragraph in which you consider the following elements of the assignment’s writing situation. Do not merely cut and paste phrasing from the guidelines. The idea here is to make sure you understand the “big picture” of the assignment before jumping in. Gaining this insight early on will save you from doing more revisions in the end, I promise! This exercise also ensures that we are all on the same page for the upcoming assignment, as it can be difficult to convey instructions solely online.
Elements to Consider:
Purpose: Why are you writing this essay? Imagine a fellow student is asking why we are doing this assignment? What would you tell them?
Audience: Who is your audience? What information do they need to know? What information might they already know?
Context: How might this essay help you reach the course’s larger goals?
Genre/Method of Delivery: What expectations are in place for the style, structure, and format of this essay?
Logistics: What are the rules for submitting this essay? Keeping the requirements in mind while you write will help address all items in the assignment rubric.

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