Write a dialogue between the two fictitious people; the dialogue should focus on one person requesting a favor from the other person.

Journal: Language and Situation
Don’t forget to apply the stages of the writing
process by, first, starting with an outline of your ideas about this week’s
topic for your essay. Please include your bulleted outline as part of your submission
this week.
This week you will explore how language
changes based on the situation. Imagine a situation in which one person is
asking another person for a favor (identify one favor and utilize it for the
entire assignment). Select three of the following situations:
Grandchild
talking to grandparent
Two
romantically involved people talking
Employee
talking to boss
Student
talking to professor
Two
siblings talking
Two
neighbors talking
Parishioner
talking to a pastor
Parent
talking to a child
Two
Write a dialogue between the two fictitious people; the dialogue should focus on one person requesting a favor from the other person.
Reflecting on your dialogues, answer the
following questions:
How
did the dialogues change?
Why
did the dialogues change?
You are practicing the ‘Drafting and Revising’
stages of the Writing Process this week. Review this process below.

Pre-Writing
Drafting
Revising
Peer Review
Editing
Publishing

Outline and Draft
To begin, work from your
outline and type out all your ideas into paragraph form, focusing on keeping
the content relevant to the topic of the bulleted item/paragraph in your
Outline. During this initial drafting stage, you don’t worry about spelling, grammar,
or smoothness. We can focus on “polishing” the essay later in the process. For
now, you just want to get all your ideas down, like a free-writing exercise.
Just write ideas during the first draft. Drafts are “sloppy copies.” Drafts are
meant to have mistakes.

Revision
Once you feel that you
have filled in your outline and written out a good first draft that addresses
all the points of the assignment, you are ready to begin revising. During
revision, you start to reread through the paper and work on clarity of ideas
and completeness of your explanations, while adding or deleting content. At
this stage, it is important to ask another person to proofread your paper for
flow and confusions and to provide feedback. Take these suggestions from your
“peer reader” and decide if those suggestions improve your paper. If so,
incorporate them into making your paper stronger.

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