Negotiate your own writing goals and audience expectations regarding conventions of genre, medium, and rhetorical situation.

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Each assignment we did this semester focused on a specific genre. The first project was written as a scientific narrative, the second was an informative review, and the third was multimodal so we wrote a position paper and created a flyer. Every genre was very different from the other and depending on the genre we wrote in, we had to adjust the material in the paper. For example, the scientific narrative was based on a personal experience so it was very content dependent and filled with the writer’s thoughts/feelings. On the other hand, the informative review is solely based on facts, data, statistics, etc. so there should be no bias. The reason there’s such a vast difference in the way the content is presented is because of differences in the audience. Since the scientific narrative is more like a story, there’s a bigger chance for the general public to read it since it’s more “enjoyable”. But with the informative narrative, there’s usually a targeted audience. My informative review was about the scientific effects of the overturning of Roe v. Wade and my targeted audience was lawmakers. While yes anyone can read my review, it’s meant for lawmakers because they can decide to make a change if they read scientific evidence about the topic. We had to make sure the information was properly relayed in the best genre for the topic so the message would be accurately conveyed to the intended audience. In order to do that, you have to know the genre conventions, the best medium to deliver the information, and the rhetorical situation.

*a more elaborate explanation of the genre in use and how it affects the intended audience*

https://pressbooks.pub/firstyearcomposition/chapter/identifying-genre-expectations/