ANALYSIS OF WRITING CONCEPTS FINAL DRAFT

Submit a final draft of Project One to “P1 Analysis of Writing Concepts Final Draft” in USF Writes (Links to an external site.) by the deadline. This draft should represent thoughtful consideration of the feedback you’ve received and should demonstrate significant development beyond the rough draft.

Considerations for Analysis

In your analysis, go beyond summarizing to analyze andmake connections between the writing concepts and your knowledge as a writer. Use the sources or readings from our class to support your ideas with evidence – examples that illustrate your points about these key writing concepts and why it’s important for a writer to understand them.

First, you should define the concepts in your own way – what do they mean to you? Then explain the connections between concepts. How do they work together in a piece of writing, and what concepts are most often connected or which depend on the situation for writing? You might explore a concept in one of the sources/readings – like how genre connects to another concept in the commencement addresses we reviewed. Or discuss how a concept in one of the sources is different or similar to the way it is in another source. You might compare how audience is different across examples, or how the purpose of pieces of writing might be similar even if the contexts are different. You decide what connections to discuss. Make sure you thoroughly analyze the evidence you choose to support your points – make sure you use details or direct quotes from the texts to illustrate your points.

Some ideas for writing about the concepts:

  • What is genre and why is it important? How does genre impact writing? (Use evidence to support your claims about genre).
  • What does audience matter? Use examples from the readings to illustrate how a writer considers audience.
  • How do audience and genre connect? Show through examples from the readings and discuss how the genre is appropriate for the intended audience, and why you know that. Or describe how another genre might or might not have the same effect.
  • What is critical to know about the purpose for any writing? What other concepts are often connected to purpose, and can you illustrate with an example or two from the readings?
  • Why is it important to know the context in which the writing occurs?
  • What is the rhetorical situation? How is it similar and/or different than context? How does the rhetorical situation influence the writer? In what ways? Why does it matter that you consider the rhetorical situation in writing? Use examples from the readings to show how you understand each rhetorical situation and explain its importance.

You might structure your essay around ideas about the writing concepts you find most important. Discuss all the concepts but focus more on some than others, depending on what you think is more important for a writer to know.