Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Chapter 14

Its seems to be the common trend, but the times a writing text helps me is far and wide, which is how much this text is able to explicitly show good writing rules. I have never figured out a way to: describe the Point of View of writer and reader, consider open and closed formats according to goal, account for audience, occasion, and subject. This chapter showed writing in a different light. Persuasion is definitely a different tone from truth-seeking. It's also interesting, because even with this highlighted, I'm not sure if it would make a huge difference with which one I choose. This will help me define what I am trying to accomplish more clearly, but I still would have based how far I leaned between these two depending on my audience.
Often, with a more liberal and educated mind, I feel the "truth-seeking" method is more efficient. These are people that are generally more open-minded and would not be pleased to find the author omitted certain things to sway them one way. With the general public, which is especially prevalent in propaganda, they seem to try much harder through persuasion. I just found that a thought provoking connection.

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